Proem. "outside London." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCC DBDBCC EFEFCCIn the black night along the mud deep roads | A |
Amid the threatening boughs and ghastly streams | B |
Hark sounds that gird the darknesses like goads | B |
Murmurs and rumours and reverberant dreams | B |
Tramplings breaths movements and a little light | C |
The marching of the Army of the Night | C |
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The stricken men the mad brute beasts are keeping | D |
No more their places in the ditches or holes | B |
But rise and join us and the women weeping | D |
Beside the roadways rise like demon souls | B |
Fill up the ranks What shimmers there so bright | C |
The bayonets of the Army of the Night | C |
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Fill up the ranks We march in steadfast column | E |
In wavering lines yet forming more and more | F |
Men women children sombre silent solemn | E |
Rank follows rank like billows to the shore | F |
Dawnwards we tramp towards the day and light | C |
On on and up the Army of the Night | C |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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