Night On The Convoy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDD EFFEE GHIIHJKJK JLL D| ALEXANDRIA MARSEILLES | A |
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| Out in the blustering darkness on the deck | B |
| A gleam of stars looks down Long blurs of black | C |
| The lean Destroyers level with our track | C |
| Plunging and stealing watch the perilous way | D |
| Through backward racing seas and caverns of chill spray | D |
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| One sentry by the davits in the gloom | E |
| Stands mute the boat heaves onward through the night | F |
| Shrouded is every chink of cabined light | F |
| And sluiced by floundering waves that hiss and boom | E |
| And crash like guns the troop ship shudders doom | E |
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| Now something at my feet stirs with a sigh | G |
| And slowly growing used to groping dark | H |
| I know that the hurricane deck down all its length | I |
| Is heaped and spread with lads in sprawling strength | I |
| Blanketed soldiers sleeping In the stark | H |
| Danger of life at war they lie so still | J |
| All prostrate and defenceless head by head | K |
| And I remember Arras and that hill | J |
| Where dumb with pain I stumbled among the dead | K |
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| We are going home The troop ship in a thrill | J |
| Of fiery chamber'd anguish throbs and rolls | L |
| We are going home victims three thousand souls | L |
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| May | D |
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
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