The Watchers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGA BFFHHHHFF| I heard the challenge 'Who goes there ' | A |
| Close kept but mine through midnight air | B |
| I answered and was recognized | C |
| And passed and kindly thus advised | C |
| 'There's someone crawling though the grass | D |
| By the red ruin or there was | E |
| And them machine guns been a firin' | F |
| All the time the chaps was wirin' | F |
| So Sir if you're goin' out | G |
| You'll keep you 'ead well down no doubt ' | A |
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| When will the stern fine 'Who goes there ' | - |
| Meet me again in midnight air | B |
| And the gruff sentry's kindness when | F |
| Will kindness have such power again | F |
| It seems as now I wake and brood | H |
| And know my hour's decreptitude | H |
| That on some dewy parapet | H |
| the sentry's spirit gazes yet | H |
| Who will not speak with altered tone | F |
| When I am last am seem and known | F |
Edmund Blunden
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