They Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG| The Bishop tells us When the boys come back | A |
| They will not be the same for they'll have fought | B |
| In a just cause they lead the last attack | A |
| On Anti Christ their comrade's blood has bought | C |
| New right to breed an honourable race | D |
| They have challenged Death and dared him face to face | D |
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| We're none of us the same the boys reply | E |
| For George lost both his legs and Bill's stone blind | F |
| Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die | E |
| And Bert's gone syphilitic you'll not find | F |
| A chap who's served that hasn't found some change | G |
| And the Bishop said The ways of God are strange | G |
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
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