Men Of Verdun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAA FGHG IAAAA AAJA KLAL KAMMA NOPO AAQA RSHS| There are five men in the moonlight | A |
| That by their shadows stand | B |
| Three hobble humped on crutches | C |
| And two lack each a hand | B |
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| Frogs somewhere near the roadside | D |
| Chorus their chant absorbed | E |
| But a hush breathes out of the dream light | A |
| That far in heaven is orbed | A |
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| It is gentle as sleep falling | F |
| And wide as thought can span | G |
| The ancient peace and wonder | H |
| That brims in the heart of man | G |
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| Beyond the hills it shines now | I |
| On no peace but the dead | A |
| On reek of trenches thunder shocked | A |
| Tense fury of wills in wrestle locked | A |
| A chaos of crumbled red | A |
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| The five men in the moonlight | A |
| Chat joke or gaze apart | A |
| They talk of days and comrades | J |
| But each one hides his heart | A |
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| They wear clean cap and tunic | K |
| As when they went to war | L |
| A gleam comes where the medal's pinned | A |
| But they will fight no more | L |
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| The shadows maimed and antic | K |
| Gesture and shape distort | A |
| Like mockery of a demon dumb | M |
| Out of the hell din whence they come | M |
| That dogs them for his sport | A |
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| But as if dead men were risen | N |
| And stood before me there | O |
| With a terrible flame about them blown | P |
| In beams of spectral air | O |
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| I see them men transfigured | A |
| As in a dream dilate | A |
| Fabulous with the Titan throb | Q |
| Of battling Europe's fate | A |
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| For history's hushed before them | R |
| And legend flames afresh | S |
| Verdun the name of thunder | H |
| Is written on their flesh | S |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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