Requiescant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH DI| In lonely watches night by night | A |
| Great visions burst upon my sight | A |
| For down the stretches of the sky | B |
| The hosts of dead go marching by | B |
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| Strange ghostly banners o er them float | C |
| Strange bugles sound an awful note | C |
| And all their faces and their eyes | D |
| Are lit with starlight from the skies | D |
| - | |
| The anguish and the pain have passed | E |
| And peace hath come to them at last | E |
| But in the stern looks linger still | F |
| The iron purpose and the will | F |
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| Dear Christ who reign st above the flood | G |
| Of human tears and human blood | G |
| A weary road these men have trod | H |
| O house them in the home of God | H |
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| In a Field near Ypres | D |
| April | I |
Frederick George Scott
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