Preparations For Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCC DEDEEFEFF AAAAAAAAA| My soul dread not the pestilence that hags | A |
| The valley flinch not you my body young | B |
| At these great shouting smokes and snarling jags | A |
| Of fiery iron as yet may not be flung | B |
| The dice that claims you Manly move among | B |
| These ruins and what you must do do well | C |
| Look here are gardens there mossed boughs are hung | B |
| With apples who bright cheeks none might excel | C |
| And there's a house as yet unshattered by a shell | C |
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| I'll do my best the soul makes sad reply | D |
| And I will mark the yet unmurdered tree | E |
| The tokens of dear homes that court the eye | D |
| And yet I see them not as I would see | E |
| Hovering between a ghostly enemy | E |
| Sickens the light and poisoned withered wan | F |
| The least defiled turns desperate to me | E |
| The body poor unpitied Caliban | F |
| Parches and sweats and grunts to win the name of Man | F |
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| Days or eternities like swelling waves | A |
| Surge on and still we drudge in this dark maze | A |
| The bombs and coils and cans by strings of slaves | A |
| Are borne to serve the coming day of days | A |
| Pale sleep in slimy cellars scarce allays | A |
| With its brief blank the burden Look we lose | A |
| The sky is gone the lightless drenching haze | A |
| Of rainstorms chills the bone earth air are foes | A |
| The black fiend leaps brick red as life's last picture goes | A |
Edmund Blunden
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