After The Salvo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAAADDEEFFF GGBBHHIIJK AALL| UP and down up and down | A |
| They go the gray rat and the brown | A |
| The telegraph lines are tangled hair | B |
| Motionless on the sullen air | B |
| An engine has fallen on its back | C |
| With crazy wheels on a twisted track | C |
| All ground to dust is the little town | A |
| Up and down up and down | A |
| They go the gray rat and the brown | A |
| A skull torn out of the graves near by | D |
| Gapes in the grass A butterfly | D |
| In azure irridescence new | E |
| Floats into the world across the dew | E |
| Between the flow'rs Have we lost our way | F |
| Or are we toys of a god at play | F |
| Who do these things on a young Spring day | F |
| - | |
| Where the salvo fell on a splintered ledge | G |
| Of ruin at the crater's edge | G |
| A poppy lives and young and fair | B |
| The dewdrops hang on the spider's stair | B |
| With every rainbow still unhurt | H |
| From leaflet unto leaflet girt | H |
| Man's house is crushed the spider's lives | I |
| Inscrutably He takes and gives | I |
| Who guards not any temple here | J |
| Save the temple of the gossamer | K |
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| Up and down up and down | A |
| They go the gray rat and the brown | A |
| A pistol cracks they too are dead | L |
| The nightwind rustles overhead | L |
Herbert Asquith
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