Concert Party: Busseboom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJI FKLK MNMN| The stage was set the house was packed | A |
| The famous troop began | B |
| Our laughter thundered act by act | A |
| Time light as sunbeams ran | B |
| - | |
| Dance sprang and spun and neared and fled | C |
| Jest chirped at gayest pitch | D |
| Rhythm dazzled action sped | C |
| Most comically rich | D |
| - | |
| With generals and lame privates both | E |
| Such charms worked wonders till | F |
| The show was over lagging loth | G |
| We faced the sunset chill | F |
| - | |
| And standing on the sandy way | H |
| With the cracked church peering past | I |
| We heard another matin e | J |
| We heard the maniac blast | I |
| - | |
| Of barrage south by Saint Eloi | F |
| And the red lights flaming there | K |
| Called madness Come my bonny boy | L |
| And dance to the latest air | K |
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| To this new concert white we stood | M |
| Cold certainty held our breath | N |
| While men in tunnels below Larch Wood | M |
| Were kicking men to death | N |
Edmund Blunden
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