The War In The Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFF GHII JKCC| For a saving grace we didn't see our dead | A |
| Who rarely bothered coming home to die | B |
| But simply stayed away out there | C |
| In the clean war the war in the air | C |
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| Seldom the ghosts come back bearing their tales | D |
| Of hitting the earth the incompressible sea | E |
| But stayed up there in the relative wind | F |
| Shades fading in the mind | F |
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| Who had no graves but only epitaphs | G |
| Where never so many spoke for never so few | H |
| Per ardua said the partisans of Mars | I |
| Per aspera to the stars | I |
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| That was the good war the war we won | J |
| As if there was no death for goodness's sake | K |
| With the help of the losers we left out there | C |
| In the air in the empty air | C |
Howard Nemerov
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