Armistice Day (1953) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD BEBEFGFG CHCHIJIJ| Don't jeer because we celebrate | A |
| Armistice Day | B |
| Though thirty years of sorry fate | A |
| Have passed away | B |
| Though still we gaurd the Sacred Flame | C |
| And fly the Flag | D |
| That World War Two with grief and shame | C |
| Revealed a rag | D |
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| For France cannot defend to day | B |
| Her native land | E |
| And she is far to proud to pray | B |
| For helping hand | E |
| Aye though she stands amid the Free | F |
| In love with life | G |
| No more her soil will shambles be | F |
| In world war strife | G |
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| Still we who tend the deathless Flame | C |
| Of Verdun speak | H |
| It is our glory and our shame | C |
| For we are weak | H |
| We have too much of blood and blight | I |
| To answer for | J |
| No France will never never fight | I |
| Another war | J |
Robert William Service
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