Forward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCCCCDA EEFFGGHHCCCCEE IICCJJKKCCCC LMNNOO| I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes | A |
| In weary woeful waiting times | A |
| In doleful hours of battle din | B |
| Ere yet they brought the wounded in | B |
| Through vigils of the fateful night | C |
| In lousy barns by candle light | C |
| In dug outs sagging and aflood | C |
| On stretchers stiff and bleared with blood | C |
| By ragged grove by ruined road | C |
| By hearths accurst where Love abode | C |
| By broken altars blackened shrines | D |
| I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes | A |
| - | |
| I've solaced me with scraps of song | E |
| The desolated ways along | E |
| Through sickly fields all shrapnel sown | F |
| And meadows reaped by death alone | F |
| By blazing cross and splintered spire | G |
| By headless Virgin in the mire | G |
| By gardens gashed amid their bloom | H |
| By gutted grave by shattered tomb | H |
| Beside the dying and the dead | C |
| Where rocket green and rocket red | C |
| In trembling pools of poising light | C |
| With flowers of flame festoon the night | C |
| Ah me by what dark ways of wrong | E |
| I've cheered my heart with scraps of song | E |
| - | |
| So here's my sheaf of war won verse | I |
| And some is bad and some is worse | I |
| And if at times I curse a bit | C |
| You needn't read that part of it | C |
| For through it all like horror runs | J |
| The red resentment of the guns | J |
| And you yourself would mutter when | K |
| You took the things that once were men | K |
| And sped them through that zone of hate | C |
| To where the dripping surgeons wait | C |
| And wonder too if in God's sight | C |
| War ever ever can be right | C |
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| Yet may it not be crime and war | L |
| But effort misdirected are | M |
| And if there's good in war and crime | N |
| There may be in my bits of rhyme | N |
| My songs from out the slaughter mill | O |
| So take or leave them as you will | O |
Robert William Service
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