The Investiture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFGEFG| God with a Roll of Honour in His hand | A |
| Sits welcoming the heroes who have died | B |
| While sorrowless angels ranked on either side | B |
| Stand easy in Elysium's meadow land | A |
| Then you come shyly through the garden gate | C |
| Wearing a blood soaked bandage on your head | D |
| And God says something kind because you're dead | D |
| And homesick discontented with your fate | C |
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| If I were there we'd snowball Death with skulls | E |
| Or ride away to hunt in Devil's Wood | F |
| With ghosts of puppies that we walked of old | G |
| But you're alone and solitude annuls | E |
| Our earthly jokes and strangely wise and good | F |
| You roam forlorn along the streets of gold | G |
Siegfried Sassoon
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