The Effect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDEE CFFCFG HIHIJJ| The effect of our bombardment was terrific One man | A |
| told me he had never seen so many dead before War Correspondent | B |
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| He'd never seen so many dead before | C |
| They sprawled in yellow daylight while he swore | C |
| And gasped and lugged his everlasting load | D |
| Of bombs along what once had been a road | D |
| How peaceful are the dead | E |
| Who put that silly gag in some one's head | E |
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| He'd never seen so many dead before | C |
| The lilting words danced up and down his brain | F |
| While corpses jumped and capered in the rain | F |
| No no he wouldn't count them any more | C |
| The dead have done with pain | F |
| They've choked they can't come back to life again | G |
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| When Dick was killed last week he looked like that | H |
| Flapping along the fire step like a fish | I |
| After the blazing crump had knocked him flat | H |
| How many dead As many as ever you wish | I |
| Don't count 'em they're too many | J |
| Who'll buy my nice fresh corpses two a penny | J |
Siegfried Sassoon
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