Don't Cheer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEEFFGGCC HHIIJJKKAA HHLLMM AACCC| Don'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 s 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 William Service
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