News Report, September 1991 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE F GH H I J H KH LMIII G NHHIIKJIHH HHGO I N HIIIH HIIH PGGH IHQI H IHR MII| U S BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF WAR | A |
| - | |
| 'What you saw was a | B |
| bunch of trenches with | C |
| arms sticking out ' | - |
| 'Plows mounted on | D |
| tanks Combat | E |
| earthmovers ' | - |
| 'Defiant ' | - |
| 'Buried ' | - |
| 'Carefully planned and | F |
| rehearsed ' | - |
| 'When we | G |
| went through there wasn't | H |
| anybody left ' | - |
| 'Awarded | H |
| Silver Star ' | - |
| 'Reporters | I |
| banned ' | - |
| 'Not a single | J |
| American killed ' | - |
| 'Bodycount | H |
| impossible ' | - |
| 'For all I know | K |
| thousands said | H |
| Colonel Moreno ' | - |
| 'What you | L |
| saw was a bunch of | M |
| buried trenches | I |
| with people's | I |
| arms and things | I |
| sticking out ' | - |
| 'Secretary Cheney | G |
| made no mention ' | - |
| 'Every single American | N |
| was inside | H |
| the juggernaut | H |
| impervious | I |
| to small arms | I |
| fire ' 'I know | K |
| burying people | J |
| like that sounds | I |
| pretty nasty said | H |
| Colonel Maggart | H |
| But ' | - |
| 'His force buried | H |
| about six hundred | H |
| and fifty | G |
| in a thinner line | O |
| of trenches ' | - |
| 'People's arms | I |
| sticking out ' | - |
| 'Every American | N |
| inside ' | - |
| 'The juggernaut ' | - |
| 'I'm not | H |
| going to sacrifice | I |
| the lives | I |
| of my soldiers | I |
| Moreno said it's not | H |
| cost effective ' | - |
| 'The tactic was designed | H |
| to terrorize | I |
| Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins | I |
| said who helped | H |
| devise it ' | - |
| 'Schwartzkopf's staff | P |
| privately | G |
| estimated fifty to seventy | G |
| thousand killed | H |
| in the trenches ' | - |
| 'Private Joe Queen was | I |
| awarded | H |
| a Bronze Star for burying | Q |
| trenches with his | I |
| earthmover ' | - |
| 'Inside | H |
| the juggernaut ' | - |
| 'Impervious ' | - |
| 'A lot of the guys | I |
| were scared he said | H |
| but I | R |
| enjoyed it ' | - |
| 'A bunch of | M |
| trenches People's | I |
| arms and things | I |
| sticking out ' | - |
| 'Cost effective ' | - |
Denise Levertov
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