Losses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJAK LBMNO APPQRSTUV W XYX| It was not dying everybody died | A |
| It was not dying we had died before | B |
| In the routine crashes and our fields | C |
| Called up the papers wrote home to our folks | D |
| And the rates rose all because of us | E |
| We died on the wrong page of the almanac | F |
| Scattered on mountains fifty miles away | G |
| Diving on haystacks fighting with a friend | H |
| We blazed up on the lines we never saw | I |
| We died like aunts or pets or foreigners | J |
| When we left high school nothing else had died | A |
| For us to figure we had died like | K |
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| In our new planes with our new crews we bombed | L |
| The ranges by the desert or the shore | B |
| Fired at towed targets waited for our scores | M |
| And turned into replacements and woke up | N |
| One morning over England operational | O |
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| It wasn't different but if we died | A |
| It was not an accident but a mistake | P |
| But an easy one for anyone to make | P |
| We read our mail and counted up our missions | Q |
| In bombers named for girls we burned | R |
| The cities we had learned about in school | S |
| Till our lives wore out our bodies lay among | T |
| The people we had killed and never seen | U |
| When we lasted long enough they gave us medals | V |
| When we died they said 'Our casualties were low ' | - |
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| They said 'Here are the maps' we burned the cities | W |
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| It was not dying no not ever dying | X |
| But the night I died I dreamed that I was dead | Y |
| And the cities said to me 'Why are you dying | X |
| We are satisfied if you are but why did I die ' | - |
Randall Jarrell
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