The March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BBBB DEBE FBBB| I heard a voice that cried Make way for those who died | A |
| And all the coloured crowd like ghosts at morning fled | B |
| And down the waiting road rank after rank there strode | C |
| In mute and measured march a hundred thousand dead | B |
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| A hundred thousand dead with firm and noiseless tread | B |
| All shadowy grey yet solid with faces grey and ghast | B |
| And by the house they went and all their brows were bent | B |
| Straight forward and they passed and passed and passed and passed | B |
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| But O there came a place and O there came a face | D |
| That clenched my heart to see it and sudden turned my way | E |
| And in the Face that turned I saw two eyes that burned | B |
| Never forgotten eyes and they had things to say | E |
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| Like desolate stars they shone one moment and were gone | F |
| And I sank down and put my arms across my head | B |
| And felt them moving past nor looked to see the last | B |
| In steady silent march our hundred thousand dead | B |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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