The Undaunted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIBB| He tried to travel No Man's Land that's guarded well with guns | A |
| He tried to race the road of death where never a coward runs | A |
| Now he's asking of his doctor and he's panting hard for breath | B |
| How soon he will be ready for another bout with death | B |
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| You'd think if you had wakened in a shell hole's slime and mud | C |
| That was partly dirty water but was mostly human blood | C |
| And you had to lie and suffer till the bullets ceased to hum | D |
| And the night time dropped its cover so the stretcher boys could come | D |
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| You'd think if you had suffered from a fever and its thirst | E |
| And could hear the 'rapids' spitting and the high explosives burst | E |
| And had lived to tell that story you could face our fellow men | F |
| In the little peaceful village though you never fought again | F |
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| You'd think that once you'd fallen in the shrapnel's deadly rain | G |
| Once you'd shed your blood for honor you had borne your share of pain | G |
| Once you'd traveled No Man's country you'd be satisfied to quit | H |
| And be invalided homeward and could say you'd done your bit | H |
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| But he's lying patched and bandaged very white and very weak | I |
| And he's trying to be cheerful though it's agony to speak | I |
| He is pleading with the doctor though he's panting hard for breath | B |
| To return him to the trenches for another bout with death | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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