The Wounded Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDB DED EFE FGF GHG HIH IJI JKJ KCK ABA| Stupidity and Selfishness and Fear | A |
| Who hold enslaved the intellect of Man | B |
| Have found their victims here | C |
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| We saw them go alert to seek the van | B |
| Where phantom Glory showered her withering leaves | D |
| Now they return who can | B |
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| Slowly full fraught with pain the vessel heaves | D |
| From labouring seas and creeps along the bay | E |
| To where the city grieves | D |
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| Happy are those who limp the dusty way | E |
| And those whose eyes can meet the loving glance | F |
| Happy indeed are they | E |
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| But mock them not with babble of romance | F |
| They have glared at death across the orient rocks | G |
| Or in the mire of France | F |
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| O welcome to your land of herds and flocks | G |
| And fields that pray toward a fairy sky | H |
| That promises and mocks | G |
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| Welcome our eyes are strained and sorrow dry | H |
| Watching for peace and you and every heart | I |
| Would fain but cannot cry | H |
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| For you who led by love have borne your part | I |
| Where war's black ploughshare turns the bloody sand | J |
| And crops of hatred start | I |
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| For you and by your help heroic band | J |
| We swear by love and labour to make this | K |
| A lovelier worthier land | J |
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| Nor shall we let the home bred serpent hiss | K |
| Unscotched upon our hearth if ever here | C |
| Our hope and fortune kiss | K |
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| The workers of the battered world draw near | A |
| Scorning a foeman's name The heart of Man | B |
| In every land is dear | A |
John Le Gay Brereton
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