The Ancre At Hamel: Afterwards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKHLH| Where tongues were loud and hearts were light | A |
| I heard the Ancre flow | B |
| Waking oft at the mid of night | A |
| I heard the Ancre flow | B |
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| I heard it crying that sad rill | C |
| Below the painful ridge | D |
| By the burnt unraftered mill | C |
| And the relic of a bridge | D |
| And could this sighing river seem | E |
| To call me far away | F |
| And its pale word dismiss as dream | E |
| The voices of to day | F |
| The voices in the bright room chilled | G |
| And that mourned on alone | H |
| The silence of the full moon filled | G |
| With that brook's troubling tone | H |
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| The struggling Ancre had no part | I |
| In these new hours of mine | J |
| And yet its stream ran through my heart | I |
| I heard it grieve and pine | J |
| As if its rainy tortured blood | K |
| Had swirled into my own | H |
| When by its battered bank I stood | L |
| And shared its wounded moan | H |
Edmund Blunden
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