Song-books Of The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFEF GHGHIIJJKLKL| In fifty years when peace outshines | A |
| Remembrance of the battle lines | A |
| Adventurous lads will sigh and cast | B |
| Proud looks upon the plundered past | B |
| On summer morn or winter's night | C |
| Their hearts will kindle for the fight | C |
| Reading a snatch of soldier song | D |
| Savage and jaunty fierce and strong | D |
| And through the angry marching rhymes | E |
| Of blind regret and haggard mirth | F |
| They'll envy us the dazzling times | E |
| When sacrifice absolved our earth | F |
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| Some ancient man with silver locks | G |
| Will lift his weary face to say | H |
| War was a fiend who stopped our clocks | G |
| Although we met him grim and gay | H |
| And then he'll speak of Haig's last drive | I |
| Marvelling that any came alive | I |
| Out of the shambles that men built | J |
| And smashed to cleanse the world of guilt | J |
| But the boys with grin and sidelong glance | K |
| Will think Poor grandad's day is done | L |
| And dream of those who fought in France | K |
| And lived in time to share the fun | L |
Siegfried Sassoon
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