The Volunteer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEDE FAAFGHGH| Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent | A |
| Toiling at ledgers in a city grey | B |
| Thinking that so his days would drift away | B |
| With no lance broken in life s tournament | C |
| Yet ever twixt the books and his bright eyes | D |
| The gleaming eagles of the legions came | E |
| And horsemen charging under phantom skies | D |
| Went thundering past beneath the oriflamme | E |
| - | |
| And now those waiting dreams are satisfied | F |
| From twilight to the halls of dawn he went | A |
| His lance is broken but he lies content | A |
| With that high hour in which he lived and died | F |
| And falling thus he wants no recompense | G |
| Who found his battle in the last resort | H |
| Nor needs he any hearse to bear him hence | G |
| Who goes to join the men of Agincourt | H |
Herbert Asquith
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