For Valour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKBBK LLMCCM| Hail to you comrades who have won | A |
| Where the torn lines of battle run | A |
| By tattered town and ruined mead | B |
| The honour that men give with pride | C |
| To those who daffing death aside | C |
| Have done the valorous deed | B |
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| And has the war then brought to birth | D |
| As flowers that spring from western earth | D |
| At summons of the pelting rain | E |
| The courage that can force its way | F |
| And hold the shadowing wings at bay | F |
| And smile at lingering pain | E |
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| And is it true that only now | G |
| Life lifts from her heroic brow | G |
| The smothering shroud of deadly peace | H |
| And laughs to sniff the morning air | I |
| And bids a thousand bonfires flare | I |
| The news of her release | H |
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| Hell s throat may swallow down its lie | J |
| For men knew how to live and die | J |
| And take the gifts of motley fate | K |
| Before the fiends of fear and greed | B |
| Clasping engendered from their seed | B |
| The hissing brood of hate | K |
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| Are they not sightless fools who crave | L |
| The sombre splendours of the grave | L |
| To prove that man is more than dust | M |
| Who dabble fingers in the side | C |
| Of him who lives because he died | C |
| Believing when they must | M |
John Le Gay Brereton
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