Armistice Day 1933 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCDA EFGFHCH IHIHJCJ KLKLMCM| This we have said 'We shall remember them ' | A |
| And deep our sorrow while the deed was young | B |
| Even as David mourned for Absolem | C |
| Mourned we with aching heart and grievous tongue | B |
| Yet what man grieves for long Time hastens by | D |
| And ageing memory clutching at its hem | C |
| Harks back as silence falls to gaze and sigh | D |
| For we have said 'We shall remember them ' | A |
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| 'Age shall not wither ' So the world runs on | E |
| We grieve and sleep and wake to laugh again | F |
| And babes untouched by pain of days long gone | G |
| Untaught by sacrifice grow into men | F |
| What should these know of darkness and despair | H |
| Of glory now seen dimly like a gem | C |
| Glowing thro' dust that we let gather there | H |
| We who have said 'We shall remember them ' | - |
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| Grey men go marching down this street today | I |
| Grave men whose ranks grow pitifully spare | H |
| Into the West each year they drift away | I |
| From silence into silence over there | H |
| Unsung unnoticed quietly they go | J |
| Mayhap to rest mayhap a diadem | C |
| To claim that was denied them here below | J |
| By those who vowed 'We shall remember them ' | - |
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| 'We shall remember them ' This have we said | K |
| Nor sighs nor silences devoutly planned | L |
| Alone shall satisfy the proud young dead | K |
| But all things that we do to this their land | L |
| Aye theirs not ours of this be very sure | M |
| Theirs too the right to credit or condemn | C |
| And if the soul they gave it shall endure | M |
| Well may we say 'We have remembered them ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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