The Dancers: (during A Great Battle, 1916) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EEFGF HHCAC| The floors are slippery with blood | A |
| The world gyrates too God is good | B |
| That while His wind blows out the light | C |
| For those who hourly die for is | D |
| We still can dance each night | C |
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| The music has grown numb with death | E |
| But we will suck their dying breath | E |
| The whispered name they breathed to chance | F |
| To swell our music make it loud | G |
| That we may dance may dance | F |
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| We are the dull blind carrion fly | H |
| That dance and batten Though God die | H |
| Mad from the horror of the light | C |
| The light is mad too flecked with blood | A |
| We dance we dance each night | C |
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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