One Who Died: In Memory Of E.w.t.s. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGDA| I mind they told me on a noisy hill | A |
| I sat and disbelieved and shook my head | B |
| Impossible Impossible but still | A |
| these other men have died and others bled | B |
| Knees clasped I sat and thought unheeding war | C |
| The trees the winds the streets came back to me | D |
| The laughter of his eyes his home afar | E |
| The memory of his hopes his buoyancy | D |
| His dreams his jests his moods of wistfulness | F |
| The quaintness of his speech his favourite song | G |
| And this and this the end so pitiless | F |
| The man we knew The man we knew so long | G |
| To die be dead not move and this was he | D |
| I rose and oiled my rifle musingly | A |
Leon Gellert
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