In War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE DFGHI JKLMJ NOPQR STUV WXYZA2 B2C2OJT D2E2F2FG2 H2E2I2J2K2 E2L2M2N2O2 P2Q2O2R2 S2T2WU2V2 W2 B2WB2W U2V2U2V2 ZX2ZX2 Y2Z2Y2Z2 ZA3ZA3 O2B3O2B3| Fret the nonchalant noon | A |
| With your spleen | B |
| Or your gay brow | C |
| For the motion of your spirit | D |
| Ever moves with these | E |
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| When day shall be too quiet | D |
| Deaf to you | F |
| And your dumb smile | G |
| Untuned air shall lap the stillness | H |
| In the old space for your voice | I |
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| The voice that once could mirror | J |
| Remote depths | K |
| Of moving being | L |
| Stirred by responsive voices near | M |
| Suddenly stilled for ever | J |
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| No ghost darkens the places | N |
| Dark to One | O |
| But my eyes dream | P |
| And my heart is heavy to think | Q |
| How it was heavy once | R |
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| In the old days when death Stalked the world | S |
| For the flower of men | T |
| And the rose of beauty faded | U |
| And pined in the great gloom | V |
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| One day we dug a grave | W |
| We were vexed | X |
| With the sun's heat | Y |
| We scanned the hooded dead | Z |
| At noon we sat and talked | A2 |
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| How death had kissed their eyes | B2 |
| Three dread noons since | C2 |
| How human art won | O |
| The dark soul to flicker | J |
| Till it was lost again | T |
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| And we whom chance kept whole | D2 |
| But haggard | E2 |
| Spent were charged | F2 |
| To make a place for them who knew | F |
| No pain in any place | G2 |
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| The good priest came to pray | H2 |
| Our ears half heard | E2 |
| And half we thought | I2 |
| Of alien things irrelevant | J2 |
| And the heat and thirst were great | K2 |
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| The good priest read 'I heard | E2 |
| Dimly my brain | L2 |
| Held words and lost | M2 |
| Sudden my blood ran cold | N2 |
| God God It could not be | O2 |
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| He read my brother's name I sank | P2 |
| I clutched the priest | Q2 |
| They did not tell me it was he | O2 |
| Was killed three days ago | R2 |
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| What are the great sceptred dooms | S2 |
| To us caught | T2 |
| In the wild wave | W |
| We break ourselves on them | U2 |
| My brother our hearts and years | V2 |
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| THE DEAD HEROES | W2 |
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| Flame out you glorious skies | B2 |
| Welcome our brave | W |
| Kiss their exultant eyes | B2 |
| Give what they gave | W |
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| Flash mailed seraphim | U2 |
| Your burning spears | V2 |
| New days to outflame their dim | U2 |
| Heroic years | V2 |
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| Thrills their baptismal tread | Z |
| The bright proud air | X2 |
| The embattled plumes outspread | Z |
| Burn upwards there | X2 |
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| Flame out flame out Song | Y2 |
| Star ring to star | Z2 |
| Strong as our hurt is strong | Y2 |
| Our children are | Z2 |
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| Their blood is England's heart | Z |
| By their dead hands | A3 |
| It is their noble part | Z |
| That England stands | A3 |
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| England Time gave them thee | O2 |
| They gave back this | B3 |
| To win Eternity | O2 |
| And claim God's kiss | B3 |
Isaac Rosenberg
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