To The Enemy Complaining Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HH| Be ruthless then scorn slaves of scruple avow | A |
| The blow planned with such patience that you deal | B |
| So terribly hack on and care not how | A |
| The innocent fall live out your faith of steel | B |
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| Then you speak speech that we can comprehend | C |
| It cries from the unpitied blood you spill | D |
| And so we stand against you and to the end | C |
| Flame as one man the weapon of one will | D |
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| But when your lips usurp the loyal phrase | E |
| Of honour querulously voluble | F |
| Of chivalry'' and kindness '' and you praise | E |
| What you despise for weakness of the fool | G |
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| Then the gorge rises Bleat to dupe the dead | H |
| The wolf beneath the sheepskin drips too red | H |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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