Poet Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

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In The Pink Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC ADADEE FGFGHH

So Davies wrote 'This leaves me in the pink'A
Then scrawled his name 'Your loving sweetheart Willie'B
With crosses for a hug He'd had a drinkA
Of rum and tea and though the barn was chillyB
For once his blood ran warm he had pay to spendC
Winter was passing soon the year would mendC
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But he couldn't sleep that night stiff in the darkA
He groaned and thought of Sundays at the farmD
And how he'd go as cheerful as a larkA
In his best suit to wander arm in armD
With brown eyed Gwen and whisper in her earE
The simple silly things she liked to hearE
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And then he thought to morrow night we trudgeF
Up to the trenches and my boots are rottenG
Five miles of stodgy clay and freezing sludgeF
And everything but wretchedness forgottenG
To night he's in the pink but soon he'll dieH
And still the war goes on he don't know whyH

Siegfried Sassoon



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