The War After The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCB DEFDEF AGHHGGHHG IJKIJK| I | A |
| Yonder with eyes that tears not distance dim | B |
| With ears the wide world's thickness cannot daunt | C |
| We see tumultuous miseries that haunt | C |
| The night's dead watches hear the battle hymn | B |
| Of ruin shrieking through the music grim | B |
| Where the red spectre straddles long and gaunt | C |
| Spitting across the seas his hideous taunt | C |
| At those who nurse at home the unwounded limb | B |
| - | |
| What shall we say who drawing indolent breath | D |
| Mark the quick pant of those who full of hate | E |
| Drive home the steel or loose the shrieking shell | F |
| Heroes or Huns who smite the grin of death | D |
| And laugh or curse beneath the blows of fate | E |
| Swept madly to the thudding heart of hell | F |
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| II | A |
| O peace be still Let no drear whirlwind sweep | G |
| Our souls about the vault that groans or yells | H |
| In travail of the brood of Fear and swells | H |
| Stupendous with new monsters of the deep | G |
| This is no day to wring the hands and weep | G |
| No hour for hopeless tolling and clash of bells | H |
| Faith is no faith if god or demon quells | H |
| One hope or drugs it to uneasy sleep | G |
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| What you have shed man's blood for fight for still | I |
| In world wide conflict joining hand with hand | J |
| Hate fear and hatred and the seed thereof | K |
| And since you have struck for Freedom do her will | I |
| And smash the barriers parting land from land | J |
| Unfaltering armies of immortal love | K |
John Le Gay Brereton
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