Movement Of Bodies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABD EFGHIJ KLLLMN NONNMP OQBRST UMVMAN IWHWXY LZA2NYV MB2YHC2D2 MAYXNE2 MXKYMF2 G2LH2I2OJ2 NK2L2C2MN| Those of you that have got through the rest I am going to rapidly | A |
| Devote a little time to showing you those that can master it | B |
| A few ideas about tactics which must not be confused | C |
| With what we call strategy Tactics is merely | A |
| The mechanical movement of bodies and that is what we mean by it | B |
| Or perhaps I should say by them | D |
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| Strategy to be quite frank you will have no hand in | E |
| It is done by those up above and it merely refers to | F |
| The larger movements over which we have no control | G |
| But tactics are also important together or single | H |
| You must never forget that suddenly in an engagement | I |
| You may find yourself alone | J |
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| This brown clay model is a characteristic terrain | K |
| Of a simple and typical kind Its general character | L |
| Should be taken in at a glance and its general character | L |
| You can see at a glance it is somewhat hilly by nature | L |
| With a fair amount of typical vegetation | M |
| Disposed at certain parts | N |
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| Here at the top of the tray which we might call the northwards | N |
| Is a wooded headland with a crown of bushy topped trees on | O |
| And proceeding downwards or south we take in at a glance | N |
| A variety of gorges and knolls and plateaus and basins and saddles | N |
| Somewhat symmetrically put for easy identification | M |
| And here is our point of attack | P |
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| But remember of course it will not be a tray you will fight on | O |
| Nor always by daylight After a hot day think of the night | Q |
| Cooling the desert down and you still moving over it | B |
| Past a ruined tank or a gun perhaps or a dead friend | R |
| In the midst of war at peace It might quite well be that | S |
| It isn't always a tray | T |
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| And even this tray is different to what I had thought | U |
| These models are somehow never always the same for a reason | M |
| I do not know how to explain quite Just as I do not know | V |
| Why there is always someone at this particular lesson | M |
| Who always starts crying Now will you kindly | A |
| Empty those blinking eyes | N |
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| I thank you I have no wish to seem impatient | I |
| I know it is all very hard but you would not like | W |
| To take a simple example to take for example | H |
| This place we have thought of here you would not like | W |
| To find yourself face to face with it and you not knowing | X |
| What there might be inside | Y |
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| Very well then suppose this is what you must capture | L |
| It will not be easy not being very exposed | Z |
| Secluded away like it is and somewhat protected | A2 |
| By a typical formation of what appear to be bushes | N |
| So that you cannot see as to what is concealed inside | Y |
| As to whether it is friend or foe | V |
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| And so a strong feint will be necessary in this connection | M |
| It will not be a tray remember It may be a desert stretch | B2 |
| With nothing in sight to speak of I have no wish to be inconsiderate | Y |
| But I see there are two of you now commencing to snivel | H |
| I do not know where such emotional privates can come from | C2 |
| Try to behave like men | D2 |
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| I thank you I was saying a thoughtful deception | M |
| Is always somewhat essential in such a case You can see | A |
| That if only the attacker can capture such an emplacement | Y |
| The rest of the terrain is his a key position and calling | X |
| For the most resourceful manoeuvres But that is what tactics is | N |
| Or I should say rather are | E2 |
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| Let us begin then and appreciate the situation | M |
| I am thinking especially of the point we have been considering | X |
| Though in a sense everything in the whole of the terrain | K |
| Must be appreciated I do not know what I have said | Y |
| To upset so many of you I know it is a difficult lesson | M |
| Yesterday a man was sick | F2 |
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| But I have never known as many as five in a single intake | G2 |
| Unable to cope with this lesson I think you had better | L |
| Fall out all five and sit at the back of the room | H2 |
| Being careful not to talk The rest will close up | I2 |
| Perhaps it was me saying 'a dead friend' earlier on | O |
| Well some of us live | J2 |
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| And I never know why whenever we get to tactics | N |
| Men either laugh or cry though neither is strictly called for | K2 |
| But perhaps I have started too early with a difficult task | L2 |
| We will start again further north with a simpler problem | C2 |
| Are you ready Is everyone paying attention | M |
| Very well then Here are two hills | N |
Henry Reed
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