You And You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB ACACBBBBBC DEED FFGHIIJKKLLMBBKJJJNN OPOA ABAAQQRRBBR SBSBTU ABVVV WXXYZA2YZA2 B2B2C2VD2D2V E2E2VVVVF2AF2

TO THE AMERICAN PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WARA
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Every one of you won the warA
You and you and youB
Each one knowing what it was forA
And what was his job to doB
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Every one of you won the warA
Obedient unwearied unknownC
Dung in the trenches drift on the shoreA
Dust to the world's end blownC
Every one of you steady and trueB
You and you and youB
Down in the pit or up in the blueB
Whether you crawled or sailed or flewB
Whether your closest comrade knewB
Or you bore the brunt aloneC
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All of you all of you name after nameD
Jones and Robinson Smith and BrownE
You from the piping prairie townE
You from the Fundy fogs that cameD
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You from the city's roaring blocksF
You from the bleak New England rocksF
With the shingled roof in the apple boughsG
You from the brown adobe houseH
You from the Rockies you from the CoastI
You from the burning frontier postI
And you from the Klondyke's frozen flanksJ
You from the cedar swamps you from the pineK
You from the cotton and you from the vineK
You from the rice and the sugar brakesL
You from the Rivers and you from the LakesL
You from the Creeks and you from the LicksM
And you from the brown bayouB
You and you and youB
You from the pulpit you from the mineK
You from the factories you from the banksJ
Closer and closer ranks on ranksJ
Airplanes and cannon and rifles and tanksJ
Smith and Robinson Brown and JonesN
Ruddy faces or bleaching bonesN
After the turmoil and blood and painO
Swinging home to the folks againP
Or sleeping alone in the fine French rainO
Every one of you won the warA
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Every one of you won the warA
You and you and youB
Pressing and pouring forth more and moreA
Toiling and straining from shore to shoreA
To reach the flaming edge of the darkQ
Where man in his millions went up like a sparkQ
You in your thousands and millions comingR
All the sea ploughed with you all the air hummingR
All the land loud with youB
All our hearts proud with youB
All our souls bowed with the awe of your comingR
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Where's the Arch high enoughS
Lads to receive youB
Where's the eye dry enoughS
Dears to perceive youB
When at last and at last in your glory you comeT
Tramping homeU
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Every one of you won the warA
You and you and youB
You that carry an unscathed headV
You that halt with a broken treadV
And oh most of all you Dead you DeadV
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Lift up the Gates for these that are lastW
That are last in the great ProcessionX
Let the living pour in take possessionX
Flood back to the city the ranch the farmY
The church and the college and millZ
Back to the office the store the exchangeA2
Back to the wife with the babe on her armY
Back to the mother that waits on the sillZ
And the supper that's hot on the rangeA2
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And now when the last of them all are byB2
Be the Gates lifted up on highB2
To let those Others inC2
Those Others their brothers that softly treadV
That come so thick yet take no groundD2
That are so many yet make no soundD2
Our Dead our Dead our DeadV
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O silent and secretly moving throngE2
In your fifty thousand strongE2
Coming at dusk when the wreaths have droptV
And streets are empty and music stoptV
Silently coming to hearts that waitV
Dumb in the door and dumb at the gateV
And hear your step and fly to your callF2
Every one of you won the warA
But you you Dead most of allF2

Edith Wharton



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