Youth In The Skies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH AHJK LMBM| These who were children yesterday | A |
| Now move in lovely flight | B |
| Swift glancing as the shooting stars | C |
| That cleave the summer night | B |
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| A moment flashed they came and went | D |
| Horizons rise and fall | E |
| The speed of valour lifts them up | F |
| And strength obeys their call | E |
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| The downs below are breathing peace | G |
| With thyme and butterflies | H |
| And sheep at pasture in the shade | I |
| And now from English skies | H |
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| These who were children yesterday | A |
| Look down with other eyes | H |
| Man s desperate folly was not theirs | J |
| But theirs the sacrifice | K |
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| Old men may wage a war of words | L |
| Another race are these | M |
| Who flash to glory dawn and night | B |
| Above the starry seas | M |
Herbert Asquith
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