Battalion-relief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDE BFGF HH IJKJKLL| 'Fall in Now get a move on ' Curse the rain | A |
| We splash away along the straggling village | B |
| Out to the flat rich country green with June | C |
| And sunset flares across wet crops and tillage | B |
| Blazing with splendour patches Harvest soon | C |
| Up in the Line 'Perhaps the War'll be done | D |
| 'By Christmas Day Keep smiling then old son ' | E |
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| Here's the Canal it's dusk we cross the bridge | B |
| 'Lead on there by platoons ' The Line's a glare | F |
| With shell fire through the poplars distant rattle | G |
| Of rifles and machine guns 'Fritz is there | F |
| 'Christ ain't it lively Sergeant Is't a battle ' | - |
| More rain the lightning blinks and thunder rumbles | H |
| 'There's over head artillery ' some chap grumbles | H |
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| What's all this mob at the cross roads Where are the guides | I |
| 'Lead on with number One ' And off they go | J |
| 'Three minute intervals ' Poor blundering files | K |
| Sweating and blindly burdened who's to know | J |
| If death will catch them in those two dark miles | K |
| More rain 'Lead on Head quarters ' That's the lot | L |
| 'Who's that Oh Sergeant Major don't get shot | L |
| 'And tell me have we won this war or not ' | - |
Siegfried Sassoon
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