Conscripts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNOO| Fall in that awkward squad and strike no more | A |
| Attractive attitudes Dress by the right | B |
| The luminous rich colours that you wore | A |
| Have changed to hueless khaki in the night | B |
| Magic What's magic got to do with you | C |
| There's no such thing Blood's red and skies are blue | C |
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| They gasped and sweated marching up and down | D |
| I drilled them till they cursed my raucous shout | E |
| Love chucked his lute away and dropped his crown | D |
| Rhyme got sore heels and wanted to fall out | E |
| Left right Press on your butts They looked at me | F |
| Reproachful how I longed to set them free | F |
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| I gave them lectures on Defence Attack | G |
| They fidgeted and shuffled yawned and sighed | H |
| And boggled at my questions Joy was slack | G |
| And Wisdom gnawed his fingers gloomy eyed | H |
| Young Fancy how I loved him all the while | I |
| Stared at his note book with a rueful smile | I |
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| Their training done I shipped them all to France | J |
| Where most of those I'd loved too well got killed | K |
| Rapture and pale Enchantment and Romance | J |
| And many a sickly slender lord who'd filled | K |
| My soul long since with litanies of sin | L |
| Went home because they couldn't stand the din | L |
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| But the kind common ones that I despised | M |
| Hardly a man of them I'd count as friend | N |
| What stubborn hearted virtues they disguised | M |
| They stood and played the hero to the end | N |
| Won gold and silver medals bright with bars | O |
| And marched resplendent home with crowns and stars | O |
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
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