Ex-service Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBACC DEDFGGDFDerision from the dead | A |
Mocks armamental madness | B |
Redeem each Ruler said | A |
Mankind Men died to do it | C |
And some with glorying gladness | B |
Bore arms for earth and bled | A |
But most went glumly through it | C |
Dumbly doomed to rue it | C |
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The darkness of their dying | D |
Grows one with War recorded | E |
Whose swindled ghosts are crying | D |
From shell holes in the past | F |
Our deeds with lies were lauded | G |
Our bones with wrongs rewarded | G |
Dream voices these denying | D |
Dud laurels to the last | F |
Siegfried Sassoon
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