The Assault Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADADEDAAEAFFBGBG H G HGGIDDD D JKK J JKJ AAJLMNLMN OPOOPQQNRARSSTU VTWSBXBBYZYYA2A2 B2 B2C2D2C2E2 F2 E2G2H2F2G2BI2I2 J2ABJ2ABK2K2BCCDI I2 DOOL2I2M2I2| The beating of the guns grows louder | A |
| 'Not long boys now' | B |
| My heart burns whiter fearfuller prouder | A |
| Hurricanes grow | C |
| As guns redouble their fire | A |
| Through the shaken periscope peeping | D |
| I glimpse their wire | A |
| Black earth fountains of earth rise leaping | D |
| Spouting like shocks of meeting waves | E |
| Death's fountains are playing | D |
| Shells like shrieking birds rush over | A |
| Crash and din rises higher | A |
| A stream of lead raves | E |
| Over us from the left we safe under cover | A |
| Crash Reverberation Crash | F |
| Acrid smoke billowing Flash upon flash | F |
| Black smoke drifting The German line | B |
| Vanishes in confusion smoke Cries and cry | G |
| Of our men 'Gah yer swine | B |
| Ye're for it' die | G |
| In a hurricane of shell | H |
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| One cry | G |
| 'We're comin' soon look out ' | - |
| There is opened hell | H |
| Over there fragments fly | G |
| Rifles and bits of men whirled at the sky | G |
| Dust smoke thunder A sudden bout | I |
| Of machine guns chattering | D |
| And redoubled battering | D |
| As if in fury at their daring | D |
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| No good staring | D |
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| Time soon now home house on a sunny hill | J |
| Gone like a flickered page | K |
| Time soon now zero will engage | K |
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| A sudden thrill | J |
| 'Fix bayonets ' | - |
| Gods we have our fill | J |
| Of fear hysteria exultation rage | K |
| Rage to kill | J |
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| My heart burns hot whiter and whiter | A |
| Contracts tighter and tighter | A |
| Until I stifle with the will | J |
| Long forged now used | L |
| Though utterly strained | M |
| O pounding heart | N |
| Baffled confused | L |
| Heart panged head singing dizzily pained | M |
| To do my part | N |
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| Blindness a moment Sick | O |
| There the men are | P |
| Bayonets ready click | O |
| Time goes quick | O |
| A stumbled prayer somehow a blazing star | P |
| In a blue night where | Q |
| Again prayer | Q |
| The tongue trips Start | N |
| How's time Soon now Two minutes or less | R |
| The gun's fury mounting higher | A |
| Their utmost I lift a silent hand Unseen I bless | R |
| Those hearts will follow me | S |
| And beautifully | S |
| Now beautifully my will grips | T |
| Soul calm and round and filmed and white | U |
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| A shout 'Men no such order as retire ' | - |
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| I nod | V |
| The whistle's 'twixt my lips | T |
| I catch | W |
| A wan worn smile at me | S |
| Dear men | B |
| The pale wrist watch | X |
| The quiet hand ticks on amid the din | B |
| The guns again | B |
| Rise to a last fury to a rage a lust | Y |
| Kill Pound Kill Pound Pound | Z |
| Now comes the thrust | Y |
| My part dizziness will but trust | Y |
| These men The great guns rise | A2 |
| Their fury seems to burst the earth and skies | A2 |
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| They lift | B2 |
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| Gather heart all thoughts that drift | B2 |
| Be steel soul | C2 |
| Compress thyself | D2 |
| Into a round bright whole | C2 |
| I cannot speak | E2 |
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| Time Time | F2 |
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| I hear my whistle shriek | E2 |
| Between teeth set | G2 |
| I fling an arm up | H2 |
| Scramble up the grime | F2 |
| Over the parapet | G2 |
| I'm up Go on | B |
| Something meets us | I2 |
| Head down into the storm that greets us | I2 |
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| A wail | J2 |
| Lights Blurr | A |
| Gone | B |
| On on Lead Lead Hail | J2 |
| Spatter Whirr Whirr | A |
| 'Toward that patch of brown | B |
| Direction left' Bullets a stream | K2 |
| Devouring thought crying in a dream | K2 |
| Men crumpled going down | B |
| Go on Go | C |
| Deafness Numbness The loudening tornado | C |
| Bullets Mud Stumbling and skating | D |
| My voice's strangled shout | I |
| 'Steady pace boys ' | - |
| The still light gladness | I2 |
| 'Look sir Look out ' | - |
| Ha ha Bunched figures waiting | D |
| Revolver levelled quick | O |
| Flick Flick | O |
| Red as blood | L2 |
| Germans Germans | I2 |
| Good O good | M2 |
| Cool madness | I2 |
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