Next Of Kin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC CDDEE FGFGHHB IGIGJJB KGKGLLMM| A | |
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| I notice when the news comes in | B |
| Of one who's claimed eternal glory | C |
| This simple phrase 'the next of kin ' | - |
| Concludes the soldier's final story | C |
| This tells the world what voice will choke | D |
| What heart that bit of shrapnel broke | D |
| What father or what mother brave | E |
| Will think of Flanders as a grave | E |
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| 'The next of kin ' the cable cold | F |
| Wastes not a precious word in telling | G |
| Yet cannot you and I behold | F |
| The sorrow in some humble dwelling | G |
| And cannot you and I perceive | H |
| The brave yet lonely mother grieve | H |
| And picture when that news comes in | B |
| The anguish of 'the next of kin ' | - |
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| For every boy in uniform | I |
| Another soldier brave is fighting | G |
| A double rank the cannons storm | I |
| Two lines the cables are uniting | G |
| And with the hurt each soldier feels | J |
| At home the other warrior reels | J |
| Two suffer freedom's cause to win | B |
| The soldier and 'the next of kin ' | - |
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| Oh next of kin be brave be strong | K |
| As brave as was the boy that's missing | G |
| The years will many be and long | K |
| That you will hunger for his kissing | G |
| Yet he enlisted you with him | L |
| To share war's bitter price and grim | L |
| Your service runs through many years | M |
| Because your name with his appears | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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