Unfit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG DHDHII JKJKL MEMENN OPOPQR| With younger men he takes his stand | A |
| To the recruiting sergeant nigh | B |
| Sees others chosen lifts a hand | A |
| In hopes to catch the unwilling eye | B |
| While his mood turns to black despair | C |
| Heedless of those that grin and stare | C |
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| Careless of jibe and jeer he waits | D |
| Thrusts himself where the eye must fall | E |
| A voice indifferent as Fate's | D |
| Orders 'Stand back ' and that is all | E |
| 'Too old ' He steps down to make room | F |
| For younger men more slow to come | G |
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| Too old at fifty But he feels | D |
| There's lots of fighting in him yet | H |
| Some hint of glory lifts reveals | D |
| In the smirched days he would forget | H |
| They might blot out the shameful past | I |
| If he fell fighting at the last | I |
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| If he could meet them one poor rag | J |
| Of glory cast about his shame | K |
| One rag of glory England's flag | J |
| Wrapping in splendour his poor frame | K |
| And all the people he once knew | L |
| Saying 'He died as white men do ' | - |
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| Mirage Such dreams as come with sleep | M |
| And he is innocent and small | E |
| Running through orchard grasses deep | M |
| To his dead mother's tender call | E |
| Before he broke her heart and bowed | N |
| His father's comely head and proud | N |
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| There's nothing left to hope for more | O |
| Poor fool to think he might atone | P |
| He sees in a mist a fast shut door | O |
| Shambling and blear eyed and alone | P |
| He goes and darkness covers him | Q |
| Who saw the glory and the gleam | R |
Katharine Tynan
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