A Subaltern Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGG| He turned to me with his kind sleepy gaze | A |
| And fresh face slowly brightening to the grin | B |
| That sets my memory back to summer days | A |
| With twenty runs to make and last man in | B |
| He told me he'd been having a bloody time | C |
| In trenches crouching for the crumps to burst | D |
| While squeaking rats scampered across the slime | C |
| And the grey palsied weather did its worst | D |
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| But as he stamped and shivered in the rain | E |
| My stale philosophies had served him well | F |
| Dreaming about his girl had sent his brain | E |
| Blanker than ever she'd no place in Hell | F |
| 'Good God ' he laughed and slowly filled his pipe | G |
| Wondering 'why he always talked such tripe' | G |
Siegfried Sassoon
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