The Leveller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| Near Martinpuisch that night of hell | A |
| Two men were struck by the same shell | A |
| Together tumbling in one heap | B |
| Senseless and limp like slaughtered sheep | B |
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| One was a pale eighteen year old | C |
| Girlish and thin and not too bold | C |
| Pressed for the war ten years too soon | D |
| The shame and pity of his platoon | D |
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| The other came from far off lands | E |
| With bristling chin and whiskered hands | E |
| He had known death and hell before | F |
| In Mexico and Ecuador | F |
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| Yet in his death this cut throat wild | G |
| Groaned Mother Mother like a child | G |
| While that poor innocent in man's clothes | H |
| Died cursing God with brutal oaths | H |
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| Old Sergeant Smith kindest of men | I |
| Wrote out two copies there and then | I |
| Of his accustomed funeral speech | J |
| To cheer the womenfolk of each | J |
Robert Graves
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