The Hapless Army Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDDCEE FGFHHGII JKJLLKMM NGKOOGJJ| A soldier braving disease and death on the battlefield has a seven times better chance of life than a new born baby Secretary of War U S A | A |
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| The Hapless Army from the dark | B |
| That lies beyond creation | C |
| All blinded by the solar spark | B |
| And leaderless in lands forlorn | D |
| Come stumbling through the mists of morn | D |
| And foes in close formation | C |
| With taloned fingers dripping red | E |
| Bestrew the sodden world with dead | E |
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| The Hapless Army bears no sword | F |
| Fell destiny fulfilling | G |
| It marches where the murder horde | F |
| Amid the fair new urge of life | H |
| With poison stream and shot and knife | H |
| Make carnival of killing | G |
| No war above black Hell's abyss | I |
| Knows evil grim and foul as this | I |
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| In pallid hillocks lie the slain | J |
| The callous heaven under | K |
| Like twisted hieroglyphs of pain | J |
| They fleck earth to oblivion's brink | L |
| As far as human mind may think | L |
| Accusing God with thunder | K |
| Of dreadful silence Nought it serves | M |
| Fate ever calls the doomed reserves | M |
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| Still with Death's own monotony | N |
| The innocents are falling | G |
| Like dead leaves in a forest dree | K |
| And still the conscript armies come | O |
| No banners theirs no beat of drum | O |
| No merry bugles calling | G |
| Mad ally in the Slayers' train | J |
| Man slaps and sorrows for the slain | J |
Edward Dyson
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