The Last To Leave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBC DCDEBEBFBF| The guns were silent and the silent hills | A |
| had bowed their grasses to a gentle breeze | B |
| I gazed upon the vales and on the rills | B |
| And whispered What of these ' and What of these | B |
| These long forgotten dead with sunken graves | B |
| Some crossless with unwritten memories | B |
| Their only mourners are the moaning waves | B |
| Their only minstrels are the singing trees | B |
| And thus I mused and sorrowed wistfully | C |
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| I watched the place where they had scaled the height | D |
| The height whereon they bled so bitterly | C |
| Throughout each day and through each blistered night | D |
| I sat there long and listened all things listened too | E |
| I heard the epics of a thousand trees | B |
| A thousand waves I heard and then I knew | E |
| The waves were very old the trees were wise | B |
| The dead would be remembered evermore | F |
| The valiant dead that gazed upon the skies | B |
| And slept in great battalions by the shore | F |
Leon Gellert
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