Ypres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GGGG GHIH JKEK JLML NOGO MPMQ GMOM| On the road to Ypres on the long road | A |
| Marching strong | B |
| We'll sing a song of Ypres of her glory | C |
| And her wrong | B |
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| Proud rose her towers in the old time | D |
| Long ago | E |
| Trees stood on her ramparts and the water | F |
| Lay below | E |
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| Shattered are the towers into potsherds | G |
| Jumbled stones | G |
| Underneath the ashes that were rafters | G |
| Whiten bones | G |
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| Blood is in the cellar where the wine was | G |
| On the floor | H |
| Rats run on the pavement where the wives met | I |
| At the door | H |
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| But in Ypres there's an army that is biding | J |
| Seen of none | K |
| You'd never hear their tramp nor see their shadow | E |
| In the sun | K |
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| Thousands of the dead men there are waiting | J |
| Through the night | L |
| Waiting for a bugle in the cold dawn | M |
| Blown for fight | L |
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| Listen when the bugle's calling Forward | N |
| They'll be found | O |
| Dead men risen in battalions | G |
| From underground | O |
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| Charging with us home and through the foemen | M |
| Driving fear | P |
| Swifter than the madness in a madman | M |
| As they hear | Q |
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| Dead men ring the bells of Ypres | G |
| For a sign | M |
| Hear the bells and fear them in the Hunland | O |
| Over Rhine | M |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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