It's A Queer Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCDDECE FGHHEIE JJDKKEDE LLHMMEHE| It's hard to know if you're alive or dead | A |
| When steel and fire go roaring through your head | A |
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| One moment you'll be crouching at your gun | B |
| Traversing mowing heaps down half in fun | B |
| The next you choke and clutch at your right breast | C |
| No time to think leave all and off you go | D |
| To Treasure Island where the Spice winds blow | D |
| To lovely groves of mango quince and lime | E |
| Breathe no good bye but ho for the Red West | C |
| It's a queer time | E |
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| You're charging madly at them yelling 'Fag ' | - |
| When somehow something gives and your feet drag | F |
| You fall and strike your head yet feel no pain | G |
| And find you're digging tunnels through the hay | H |
| In the Big Barn 'cause it's a rainy day | H |
| Oh springy hay and lovely beams to climb | E |
| You're back in the old sailor suit again | I |
| It's a queer time | E |
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| Or you'll be dozing safe in your dug out | J |
| A great roar the trench shakes and falls about | J |
| You're struggling gasping struggling then hullo | D |
| Elsie comes tripping gaily down the trench | K |
| Hanky to nose that lyddite makes a stench | K |
| Getting her pinafore all over grime | E |
| Funny because she died ten years ago | D |
| It's a queer time | E |
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| The trouble is things happen much too quick | L |
| Up jump the Boches rifles thump and click | L |
| You stagger and the whole scene fades away | H |
| Even good Christians don't like passing straight | M |
| From Tipperary or their Hymn of Hate | M |
| To Alleluiah chanting and the chime | E |
| Of golden harps and I'm not well to day | H |
| It's a queer time | E |
Robert Graves
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