For The Fallen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAF GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT| With proud thanksgiving a mother for her children | A |
| England mourns for her dead across the sea | B |
| Flesh of her flesh they were spirit of her spirit | C |
| Fallen in the cause of the free | B |
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| Solemn the drums thrill Death august and royal | D |
| Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres | E |
| There is music in the midst of desolation | A |
| And a glory that shines upon our tears | F |
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| They went with songs to the battle they were young | G |
| Straight of limb true of eye steady and aglow | H |
| They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted | I |
| They fell with their faces to the foe | H |
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| They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old | J |
| Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn | K |
| At the going down of the sun and in the morning | L |
| We will remember them | K |
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| They mingle not with their laughing comrades again | M |
| They sit no more at familiar tables of home | N |
| They have no lot in our labour of the day time | O |
| They sleep beyond England's foam | N |
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| But where our desires are and our hopes profound | P |
| Felt as a well spring that is hidden from sight | Q |
| To the innermost heart of their own land they are known | R |
| As the stars are known to the Night | Q |
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| As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust | S |
| Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain | T |
| As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness | U |
| To the end to the end they remain | T |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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