The School At War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ DKDK| All night before the brink of death | A |
| In fitful sleep the army lay | B |
| For through the dream that stilled their breath | A |
| Too gauntly glared the coming day | B |
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| But we within whose blood there leaps | C |
| The fulness of a life as wide | D |
| As Avon's water where he sweeps | C |
| Seaward at last with Severn's tide | D |
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| We heard beyond the desert night | E |
| The murmur of the fields we knew | F |
| And our swift souls with one delight | E |
| Like homing swallows Northward flew | F |
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| We played again the immortal games | G |
| And grappled with the fierce old friends | H |
| And cheered the dead undying names | G |
| And sang the song that never ends | H |
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| Till when the hard familiar bell | I |
| Told that the summer night was late | J |
| Where long ago we said farewell | I |
| We said farewell by the old gate | J |
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| O Captains unforgot they cried | D |
| Come you again or come no more | K |
| Across the world you keep the pride | D |
| Across the world we mark the score | K |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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