A Whispered Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGHHII| I'd heard fool heroes brag of where they'd been | A |
| With stories of the glories that they'd seen | B |
| But you good simple soldier seasoned well | C |
| In woods and posts and crater lines of hell | C |
| Who dodge remembered 'crumps' with wry grimace | D |
| Endured experience in your queer kind face | E |
| Fatigues and vigils haunting nerve strained eyes | F |
| And both your brothers killed to make you wise | F |
| You had no babbling phrases what you said | G |
| Was like a message from the maimed and dead | G |
| But memory brought the voice I knew whose note | H |
| Was muted when they shot you in the throat | H |
| And still you whisper of the war and find | I |
| Sour jokes for all those horrors left behind | I |
Siegfried Sassoon
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