Tri-colour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD ECECAFAF GHGHIJIJPoppies you try to tell me glowing there in the wheat | A |
Poppies Ah no You mock me It's blood I tell you it's blood | B |
It's gleaming wet in the grasses it's glist'ning warm in the wheat | A |
It dabbles the ferns and the clover it brims in an angry flood | B |
It leaps to the startled heavens it smothers the sun it cries | C |
With scarlet voices of triumph from blossom and bough and blade | D |
See the bright horror of it It's roaring out of the skies | C |
And the whole red world is a welter Oh God I'm afraid I'm afraid | D |
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Cornflowers you say just cornflowers gemming the golden grain | E |
Ah no You can't deceive me Can't I believe my eyes | C |
Look It's the dead my comrades stark on the dreadful plain | E |
All in their dark blue blouses staring up at the skies | C |
Comrades of canteen laughter dumb in the yellow wheat | A |
See how they sprawl and huddle See how their brows are white | F |
Goaded on to the shambles there in death and defeat | A |
Father of Pity hide them Hasten O God Thy night | F |
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Lillies the light is waning only lilies you say | G |
Nestling and softly shining there where the spear grass waves | H |
No my friend I know better brighter I see than day | G |
It's the poor little wooden crosses over their quiet graves | H |
Oh how they're gleaming gleaming See Each cross has a crown | I |
Yes it's true I am dying little will be the loss | J |
Darkness but look In Heaven a light and it's shining down | I |
God's accolade Lift me up friends I'm going to win my Cross | J |
Robert William Service
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