The Stretcher-bearer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGI JKJKLMLMMy stretcher is one scarlet stain | A |
And as I tries to scrape it clean | B |
I tell you wot I'm sick with pain | A |
For all I've 'eard for all I've seen | B |
Around me is the 'ellish night | C |
And as the war's red rim I trace | D |
I wonder if in 'Eaven's height | C |
Our God don't turn away 'Is Face | D |
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I don't care 'oose the Crime may be | E |
I 'olds no brief for kin or clan | F |
I 'ymns no 'ate I only see | E |
As man destroys his brother man | F |
I waves no flag I only know | G |
As 'ere beside the dead I wait | H |
A million 'earts is weighed with woe | G |
A million 'omes is desolate | I |
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In drippin' darkness far and near | J |
All night I've sought them woeful ones | K |
Dawn shudders up and still I 'ear | J |
The crimson chorus of the guns | K |
Look like a ball of blood the sun | L |
'Angs o'er the scene of wrath and wrong | M |
Quick Stretcher bearers on the run | L |
O Prince of Peace 'ow long 'ow long | M |
Robert William Service
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