The Illusion Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFBBGGHIHI JKLKJKKMK| War | A |
| I abhor | A |
| And yet how sweet | B |
| The sound along the marching street | B |
| Of drum and fife and I forget | C |
| Wet eyes of widows and forget | C |
| Broken old mothers and the whole | D |
| Dark butchery without a soul | D |
| - | |
| Without a soul save this bright drink | E |
| Of heady music sweet as hell | F |
| And even my peace abiding feet | B |
| Go marching with the marching street | B |
| For yonder yonder goes the fife | G |
| And what care I for human life | G |
| The tears fill my astonished eyes | H |
| And my full heart is like to break | I |
| And yet 'tis all embannered lies | H |
| A dream those little drummers make | I |
| - | |
| O it is wickedness to clothe | J |
| Yon hideous grinning thing that stalks | K |
| Hidden in music like a queen | L |
| That in a garden of glory walks | K |
| Till good men love the thing they loathe | J |
| Art thou hast many infamies | K |
| But not an infamy like this | K |
| O snap the fife and still the drum | M |
| And show the monster as she is | K |
Richard Le Gallienne
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