April On The Battlefields Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEA FGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUV WXXYFFZ ZIA2B2FFFC2F| April now walks the fields again | A |
| Trailing her tearful leaves | B |
| And holding all her frightened buds against her heart | C |
| Wrapt in her clouds and mists | D |
| She walks | E |
| Groping her way among the graves of men | A |
| - | |
| The green of earth is differently green | F |
| A dreadful knowledge trembles in the grass | G |
| And little wide eyed flowers die too soon | H |
| There is a stillness here | I |
| After a terror of all raving sounds | J |
| And birds sit close for comfort upon the boughs | K |
| Of broken trees | L |
| - | |
| April thou grief | M |
| What of thy sun and glad high wind | N |
| Thy valiant hills and woods and eager brooks | O |
| Thy thousand petalled hopes | P |
| The sky forbids thee sorrow April | Q |
| And yet | R |
| I see thee walking listlessly | S |
| Across those scars that once were joyous sod | T |
| Those graves | U |
| Those stepping stones from life to life | V |
| - | |
| Death is an interruption between two heart beats | W |
| That I know | X |
| Yet know not how I know | X |
| But April mourns | Y |
| Trailing her tender green | F |
| The passion of her green | F |
| Across the passion of those fearful fields | Z |
| - | |
| Yes all the fields | Z |
| No barrier here | I |
| No challenge in the night | A2 |
| No stranger land | B2 |
| She passes with her perfect countersign | F |
| Her green | F |
| She wanders in her mournful garden | F |
| Dropping her buds like tears | C2 |
| Spreading her lovely grief upon the graves of man | F |
Leonora Speyer
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