The Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBEEEE A FFFEGGDDDDD A DHHDDDIDEDDE DDJ J| I | A |
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| Moonlight and dew drenched blossom and the scent | B |
| Of summer gardens these can bring you all | C |
| Those dreams that in the starlit silence fall | C |
| Sweet songs are full of odours | D |
| While I went | B |
| Last night in drizzling dusk along a lane | E |
| I passed a squalid farm from byre and midden | E |
| Came the rank smell that brought me once again | E |
| A dream of war that in the past was hidden | E |
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| II | A |
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| Up a disconsolate straggling village street | F |
| I saw the tired troops trudge I heard their feet | F |
| The cheery Q M S was there to meet | F |
| And guide our Company in | E |
| I watched them stumble | G |
| Into some crazy hovel too beat to grumble | G |
| Saw them file inward slipping from their backs | D |
| Rifles equipment packs | D |
| On filthy straw they sit in the gloom each face | D |
| Bowed to patched sodden boots they must unlace | D |
| While the wind chills their sweat through chinks and cracks | D |
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| III | A |
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| I'm looking at their blistered feet young Jones | D |
| Stares up at me mud splashed and white and jaded | H |
| Out of his eyes the morning light has faded | H |
| Old soldiers with three winters in their bones | D |
| Puff their damp Woodbines whistle stretch their toes | D |
| They can still grin at me for each of 'em knows | D |
| That I'm as tired as they are | I |
| Can they guess | D |
| The secret burden that is always mine | E |
| Pride in their courage pity for their distress | D |
| And burning bitterness | D |
| That I must take them to the accursed Line | E |
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| IV | - |
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| I cannot hear their voices but I see | D |
| Dim candles in the barn they gulp their tea | D |
| And soon they'll sleep like logs Ten miles away | J |
| The battle winks and thuds in blundering strife | - |
| And I must lead them nearer day by day | J |
| To the foul beast of war that bludgeons life | - |
Siegfried Sassoon
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