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 rapidlyA
Devote a little time to showing you those that can master itB
A few ideas about tactics which must not be confusedC
With what we call strategy Tactics is merelyA
The mechanical movement of bodies and that is what we mean by itB
Or perhaps I should say by themD
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Strategy to be quite frank you will have no hand inE
It is done by those up above and it merely refers toF
The larger movements over which we have no controlG
But tactics are also important together or singleH
You must never forget that suddenly in an engagementI
You may find yourself aloneJ
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This brown clay model is a characteristic terrainK
Of a simple and typical kind Its general characterL
Should be taken in at a glance and its general characterL
You can see at a glance it is somewhat hilly by natureL
With a fair amount of typical vegetationM
Disposed at certain partsN
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Here at the top of the tray which we might call the northwardsN
Is a wooded headland with a crown of bushy topped trees onO
And proceeding downwards or south we take in at a glanceN
A variety of gorges and knolls and plateaus and basins and saddlesN
Somewhat symmetrically put for easy identificationM
And here is our point of attackP
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But remember of course it will not be a tray you will fight onO
Nor always by daylight After a hot day think of the nightQ
Cooling the desert down and you still moving over itB
Past a ruined tank or a gun perhaps or a dead friendR
In the midst of war at peace It might quite well be thatS
It isn't always a trayT
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And even this tray is different to what I had thoughtU
These models are somehow never always the same for a reasonM
I do not know how to explain quite Just as I do not knowV
Why there is always someone at this particular lessonM
Who always starts crying Now will you kindlyA
Empty those blinking eyesN
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I thank you I have no wish to seem impatientI
I know it is all very hard but you would not likeW
To take a simple example to take for exampleH
This place we have thought of here you would not likeW
To find yourself face to face with it and you not knowingX
What there might be insideY
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Very well then suppose this is what you must captureL
It will not be easy not being very exposedZ
Secluded away like it is and somewhat protectedA2
By a typical formation of what appear to be bushesN
So that you cannot see as to what is concealed insideY
As to whether it is friend or foeV
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And so a strong feint will be necessary in this connectionM
It will not be a tray remember It may be a desert stretchB2
With nothing in sight to speak of I have no wish to be inconsiderateY
But I see there are two of you now commencing to snivelH
I do not know where such emotional privates can come fromC2
Try to behave like menD2
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I thank you I was saying a thoughtful deceptionM
Is always somewhat essential in such a case You can seeA
That if only the attacker can capture such an emplacementY
The rest of the terrain is his a key position and callingX
For the most resourceful manoeuvres But that is what tactics isN
Or I should say rather areE2
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Let us begin then and appreciate the situationM
I am thinking especially of the point we have been consideringX
Though in a sense everything in the whole of the terrainK
Must be appreciated I do not know what I have saidY
To upset so many of you I know it is a difficult lessonM
Yesterday a man was sickF2
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But I have never known as many as five in a single intakeG2
Unable to cope with this lesson I think you had betterL
Fall out all five and sit at the back of the roomH2
Being careful not to talk The rest will close upI2
Perhaps it was me saying 'a dead friend' earlier onO
Well some of us liveJ2
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And I never know why whenever we get to tacticsN
Men either laugh or cry though neither is strictly called forK2
But perhaps I have started too early with a difficult taskL2
We will start again further north with a simpler problemC2
Are you ready Is everyone paying attentionM
Very well then Here are two hillsN

Henry Reed



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