How To Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI| Dark clouds are smouldering into red | A |
| While down the craters morning burns | B |
| The dying soldier shifts his head | A |
| To watch the glory that returns | B |
| He lifts his fingers toward the skies | C |
| Where holy brightness breaks in flame | D |
| Radiance reflected in his eyes | C |
| And on his lips a whispered name | D |
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| You'd think to hear some people talk | E |
| That lads go West with sobs and curses | F |
| And sullen faces white as chalk | G |
| Hankering for wreaths and tombs and hearses | F |
| But they've been taught the way to do it | H |
| Like Christian soldiers not with haste | I |
| And shuddering groans but passing through it | H |
| With due regard for decent taste | I |
Siegfried Sassoon
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