The Dreamers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB BDBDBD| Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land | A |
| Drawing no dividend from time's to morrows | B |
| In the great hour of destiny they stand | A |
| Each with his feuds and jealousies and sorrows | B |
| Soldiers are sworn to action they must win | C |
| Some flaming fatal climax with their lives | B |
| Soldiers are dreamers when the guns begin | C |
| They think of firelit homes clean beds and wives | B |
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| I see them in foul dug outs gnawed by rats | B |
| And in the ruined trenches lashed with rain | D |
| Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats | B |
| And mocked by hopeless longing to regain | D |
| Bank holidays and picture shows and spats | B |
| And going to the office in the train | D |
Siegfried Sassoon
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