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