Poppies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGFG| Some scarlet poppies lay upon our right | A |
| He watched them through his periscope all day | B |
| He watched then all the day but in the night | A |
| They seemed to pass away | B |
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| They came again much redder with the morn | C |
| And still he gazed and strangely longed to roam | D |
| Among their savage splendour in the corn | C |
| And ponder on his home | D |
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| But when the charge was done they found him | E |
| there | F |
| Deep in the redness where he d made his stand | G |
| With withered poppies in his twisted hair | F |
| And poppies in his hand | G |
Leon Gellert
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