A Letter Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGG HIHIFFJJKLLKMMKK JJGGNNOOPPQQRRSS GGTTUUUUUUTTUU UJUJVUVUWFWFXXGG S| A | |
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| Here I'm sitting in the gloom | B |
| Of my quiet attic room | B |
| France goes rolling all around | C |
| Fledged with forest May has crowned | C |
| And I puff my pipe calm hearted | D |
| Thinking how the fighting started | D |
| Wondering when we'll ever end it | E |
| Back to Hell with Kaiser send it | E |
| Gag the noise pack up and go | F |
| Clockwork soldiers in a row | F |
| I've got better things to do | G |
| Than to waste my time on you | G |
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| Robert when I drowse to night | H |
| Skirting lawns of sleep to chase | I |
| Shifting dreams in mazy light | H |
| Somewhere then I'll see your face | I |
| Turning back to bid me follow | F |
| Where I wag my arms and hollo | F |
| Over hedges hasting after | J |
| Crooked smile and baffling laughter | J |
| Running tireless floating leaping | K |
| Down your web hung woods and valleys | L |
| Garden glooms and hornbeam alleys | L |
| Where the glowworm stars are peeping | K |
| Till I find you quiet as stone | M |
| On a hill top all alone | M |
| Staring outward gravely pondering | K |
| Jumbled leagues of hillock wandering | K |
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| You and I have walked together | J |
| In the starving winter weather | J |
| We've been glad because we knew | G |
| Time's too short and friends are few | G |
| We've been sad because we missed | N |
| One whose yellow head was kissed | N |
| By the gods who thought about him | O |
| Till they couldn't do without him | O |
| Now he's here again I've seen | P |
| Soldier David dressed in green | P |
| Standing in a wood that swings | Q |
| To the madrigal he sings | Q |
| He's come back all mirth and glory | R |
| Like the prince in fairy story | R |
| Winter called him far away | S |
| Blossoms bring him home with May | S |
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| Well I know you'll swear it's true | G |
| That you found him decked in blue | G |
| Striding up through morning land | T |
| With a cloud on either hand | T |
| Out in Wales you'll say he marches | U |
| Arm in arm with oaks and larches | U |
| Hides all night in hilly nooks | U |
| Laughs at dawn in tumbling brooks | U |
| Yet it's certain here he teaches | U |
| Outpost schemes to groups of beeches | U |
| And I'm sure as here I stand | T |
| That he shines through every land | T |
| That he sings in every place | U |
| Where we're thinking of his face | U |
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| Robert there's a war in France | U |
| Everywhere men bang and blunder | J |
| Sweat and swear and worship Chance | U |
| Creep and blink through cannon thunder | J |
| Rifles crack and bullets flick | V |
| Sing and hum like hornet swarms | U |
| Bones are smashed and buried quick | V |
| Yet through stunning battle storms | U |
| All the while I watch the spark | W |
| Lit to guide me for I know | F |
| Dreams will triumph though the dark | W |
| Scowls above me where I go | F |
| You can hear me you can mingle | X |
| Radiant folly with my jingle | X |
| War's a joke for me and you | G |
| While we know such dreams are true | G |
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| S S Flix eacute court May | S |
Siegfried Sassoon
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