The Redeemer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDD EFEFFGHGH IJIJJKLKL MFNFFOOP| Darkness the rain sluiced down the mire was deep | A |
| It was past twelve on a mid winter night | B |
| When peaceful folk in beds lay snug asleep | A |
| There with much work to do before the light | B |
| We lugged our clay sucked boots as best we might | B |
| Along the trench sometimes a bullet sang | C |
| And droning shells burst with a hollow bang | C |
| We were soaked chilled and wretched every one | D |
| Darkness the distant wink of a huge gun | D |
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| I turned in the black ditch loathing the storm | E |
| A rocket fizzed and burned with blanching flare | F |
| And lit the face of what had been a form | E |
| Floundering in mirk He stood before me there | F |
| I say that He was Christ stiff in the glare | F |
| And leaning forward from His burdening task | G |
| Both arms supporting it His eyes on mine | H |
| Stared from the woeful head that seemed a mask | G |
| Of mortal pain in Hell's unholy shine | H |
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| No thorny crown only a woollen cap | I |
| He wore an English soldier white and strong | J |
| Who loved his time like any simple chap | I |
| Good days of work and sport and homely song | J |
| Now he has learned that nights are very long | J |
| And dawn a watching of the windowed sky | K |
| But to the end unjudging he'll endure | L |
| Horror and pain not uncontent to die | K |
| That Lancaster on Lune may stand secure | L |
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| He faced me reeling in his weariness | M |
| Shouldering his load of planks so hard to bear | F |
| I say that He was Christ who wrought to bless | N |
| All groping things with freedom bright as air | F |
| And with His mercy washed and made them fair | F |
| Then the flame sank and all grew black as pitch | O |
| While we began to struggle along the ditch | O |
| And someone flung his burden in the muck | P |
| Mumbling 'O Christ Almighty now I'm stuck ' | - |
Siegfried Sassoon
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