The Troops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMDNOA PQRSTUVWX| Dim gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom | A |
| Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals | B |
| Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots | C |
| And turn dulled sunken faces to the sky | D |
| Haggard and hopeless They who have beaten down | E |
| The stale despair of night must now renew | F |
| Their desolation in the truce of dawn | G |
| Murdering the livid hours that grope for peace | H |
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| Yet these who cling to life with stubborn hands | I |
| Can grin through storms of death and find a gap | J |
| In the clawed cruel tangles of his defence | K |
| They march from safety and the bird sung joy | L |
| Of grass green thickets to the land where all | M |
| Is ruin and nothing blossoms but the sky | D |
| That hastens over them where they endure | N |
| Sad smoking flat horizons reeking woods | O |
| And foundered trench lines volleying doom for doom | A |
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| O my brave brown companions when your souls | P |
| Flock silently away and the eyeless dead | Q |
| Shame the wild beast of battle on the ridge | R |
| Death will stand grieving in that field of war | S |
| Since your unvanquished hardihood is spent | T |
| And through some mooned Valhalla there will pass | U |
| Battalions and battalions scarred from hell | V |
| The unreturning army that was youth | W |
| The legions who have suffered and are dust | X |
Siegfried Sassoon
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