To The Unknown Warrior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG IJDK DLFL| You whom the kings saluted who refused not | A |
| The one great pleasure of ignoble days | B |
| Fame without name and glory without gossip | C |
| Whom no biographer befouls with praise | B |
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| Who said of you Defeated In the darkness | D |
| The dug out where the limelight never comes | E |
| Nor the big drum of Barnum's show can shatter | F |
| That vibrant stillness after all the drums | E |
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| Though the time comes when every Yankee circus | D |
| Can use our soldiers for its sandwich men | G |
| When those that pay the piper call the tune | H |
| You will not dance You will not move again | G |
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| You will not march for Fatty Arbuckle | I |
| Though he have yet a favourable press | J |
| Tender as San Francisco to St Francis | D |
| Or all the angels of Los Angeles | K |
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| They shall not storm the last unfallen fortress | D |
| The lonely castle where uncowed and free | L |
| Dwells the unknown and undefeated warrior | F |
| That did alone defeat Publicity | L |
G. K. Chesterton
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