Don't Cheer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEEFFGGCC HHIIJJKKAA HHLLMM AACCCDon't cheer damn you Don't cheer | A |
Silence Your bitterest tear | B |
Is fulsomely sweet to day | C |
Down on your knees and pray | C |
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See they sing as they go | D |
Marching row upon row | D |
Who will be spared to return | E |
Sombre and starkly stern | E |
Chaps whom we knew so strange | F |
Distant and dark with change | F |
Silent as those they slew | G |
Something in them dead too | G |
Who will return this way | C |
To sing as they sing to day | C |
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Send to the glut of the guns | H |
Bravest and best of you sons | H |
Hurl a million to slaughter | I |
Blood flowing like Thames water | I |
Pile up pyramid high | J |
Your dead to the anguished sky | J |
A monument down all time | K |
Of hate and horror and crime | K |
Weep rage pity curse fear | A |
Anything but don't cheer | A |
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Sow to the ploughing guns | H |
Seed of your splendid sons | H |
Let your heroic slain | L |
Richly manure the plain | L |
What will the harvest be | M |
Unborn of Unborn will see | M |
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Dark is the sky and drear | A |
For the pity of God don't cheer | A |
Dark and dread is their way | C |
Who sing as they march to day | C |
Humble your hearts and pray | C |
Robert Service
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