Devotion To Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDD EEF| I was near the King that day I saw him snatch | A |
| And briskly scan the G H Q dispatch | A |
| Thick voiced he read it out His face was grave | B |
| 'This officer advanced with the first wave | B |
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| 'And when our first objective had been gained | C |
| ' Though wounded twice reorganized the line | D |
| 'The spirit of the troops was by his fine | D |
| 'Example most effectively sustained ' | - |
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| He gripped his beard then closed his eyes and said | E |
| 'Bathsheba must be warned that he is dead | E |
| 'Send for her I will be the first to tell | F |
| 'This wife how her heroic husband fell ' | - |
Siegfried Sassoon
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