The Sacrifices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDADA CBCBEFEF ABABGHGH IJKKLMLM| Twin boys I bore my joy my care | A |
| My hope my life they were to me | B |
| Their father dashing debonair | A |
| Fell fighting at Gallipoli | C |
| His daring gallantry no doubt | D |
| They 'herited in equal share | A |
| So when the Second War broke out | D |
| With eagerness they chose the air | A |
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| Said Dick The sea's too bally slow | C |
| A flying ship's the one for me | B |
| Said Peter Land Foot slogging no | C |
| The jolly sky's my cup of tea | B |
| Well Dick bailed out in Channel flight | E |
| His foam flailed body never found | F |
| While Peter with his plane alight | E |
| Dashed down to death on Kentish ground | F |
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| Gay lads they were and tall and fair | A |
| And had they chosen land or sea | B |
| Shirking the hazards of the air | A |
| They might still have been left to me | B |
| But nothing could I say or do | G |
| To move their scorn of sea and land | H |
| Like eagles to the sun they flew | G |
| Why Only they could understand | H |
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| Hw day and night I prayed for them | I |
| But knew that it was ll in vain | J |
| They measured with heroic men | K |
| Yet I will never pray again | K |
| Though time may grieve my hair to grey | L |
| My lips will never kiss the rod | M |
| Only in dying I may say | L |
| In pity I forgive you God | M |
Robert William Service
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