No Man's Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FGHHIJ HHKKLL HHHH M NOHHHH| Not to an angel but a friend | A |
| He turned at the day's bitter end | A |
| It was so comforting to feel | B |
| Some one was near to see him kneel | B |
| By the deep shell hole's edge to know | C |
| He was not left to the fierce foe | C |
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| This soldier who had eased his head | D |
| And staunched the flow where it had bled | D |
| Who made a pillow of his breast | E |
| Where the poor tossing head might rest | E |
| Wore a young face he used to know | C |
| Yesterday some time long ago | C |
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| The night's cold it was bitter enough | F |
| But who shall keep the fierce Day off | G |
| And must he lie be burnt and baked | H |
| In the hot sands with lips unslaked | H |
| Will no one give him dews and rain | I |
| Lord send the frozen night again | J |
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| But here's the one who comforted | H |
| No angel but a boy instead | H |
| Slender and young above him leans | K |
| The sands are changed to tender greens | K |
| He hears the wind in the sycamore | L |
| Sing a low song by his mother's door | L |
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| Such tender touches to his wound | H |
| Such loving arms to clasp him round | H |
| Until they find him the third day | H |
| The stretcher bearers heard him say | H |
| Don't leave me Denis I am here ' | - |
| Denis But Denis died last year | M |
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| He will maintain that Denis was | N |
| Beside him in his bitter case | O |
| Denis more beautiful and gay | H |
| Than in the dear remembered day | H |
| God sent no angel but a friend | H |
| To save him at the bitter end | H |
Katharine Tynan
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