Aftermath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEAA BBFFGH IHHIJJ AA| Have you forgotten yet | A |
| For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days | B |
| Like traffic checked awhile at the crossing of city ways | B |
| And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow | C |
| Like clouds in the lit heavens of life and you're a man reprieved to go | C |
| Taking your peaceful share of Time with joy to spare | D |
| But the past is just the same and War's a bloody game | E |
| Have you forgotten yet | A |
| Look down and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget | A |
| - | |
| Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz | B |
| The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets | B |
| Do you remember the rats and the stench | F |
| Of corpses rotting in front of the front line trench | F |
| And dawn coming dirty white and chill with a hopeless rain | G |
| Do you ever stop and ask Is it all going to happen again | H |
| - | |
| Do you remember that hour of din before the attack | I |
| And the anger the blind compassion that seized and shook you then | H |
| As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men | H |
| Do you remember the stretcher cases lurching back | I |
| With dying eyes and lolling heads those ashen grey | J |
| Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay | J |
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| Have you forgotten yet | A |
| Look up and swear by the green of the Spring that you'll never forget | A |
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
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