On Passing The New Menin Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFGG| Who will remember passing through this Gate | A |
| the unheroic dead who fed the guns | B |
| Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate | A |
| Those doomed conscripted unvictorious ones | B |
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| Crudely renewed the Salient holds its own | C |
| Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp | D |
| Paid with a pile of peace complacent stone | C |
| The armies who endured that sullen swamp | D |
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| Here was the world's worst wound And here with pride | E |
| 'Their name liveth for ever' the Gateway claims | F |
| Was ever an immolation so belied | E |
| as these intolerably nameless names | F |
| Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime | G |
| Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime | G |
Siegfried Sassoon
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