Dead Musicians Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFHIJIJ A KKLLMNOPO QQ| I | A |
| - | |
| From you Beethoven Bach Mozart | B |
| The substance of my dreams took fire | C |
| You built cathedrals in my heart | B |
| And lit my pinnacled desire | C |
| You were the ardour and the bright | D |
| Procession of my thoughts toward prayer | E |
| You were the wrath of storm the light | D |
| On distant citadels aflare | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Great names I cannot find you now | F |
| In these loud years of youth that strives | G |
| Through doom toward peace upon my brow | F |
| I wear a wreath of banished lives | H |
| You have no part with lads who fought | I |
| And laughed and suffered at my side | J |
| Your fugues and symphonies have brought | I |
| No memory of my friends who died | J |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| For when my brain is on their track | K |
| In slangy speech I call them back | K |
| With fox trot tunes their ghosts I charm | L |
| Another little drink won't do us any harm | L |
| I think of rag time a bit of rag time | M |
| And see their faces crowding round | N |
| To the sound of the syncopated beat | O |
| They've got such jolly things to tell | P |
| Home from hell with a Blighty wound so neat | O |
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| And so the song breaks off and I'm alone | Q |
| They're dead For God's sake stop that gramophone | Q |
Siegfried Sassoon
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