Wirers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDCEDB FFG| Pass it along the wiring party's going out | A |
| And yawning sentries mumble Wirers going out | A |
| Unravelling twisting hammering stakes with muffled thud | B |
| They toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood | B |
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| The Boche sends up a flare Black forms stand rigid there | C |
| Stock still like posts then darkness and the clumsy ghosts | D |
| Stride hither and thither whispering tripped by clutching snare | C |
| Of snags and tangles | E |
| Ghastly dawn with vaporous coasts | D |
| Gleams desolate along the sky night's misery ended | B |
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| Young Hughes was badly hit I heard him carried away | F |
| Moaning at every lurch no doubt he'll die to day | F |
| But we can say the front line wire's been safely mended | G |
Siegfried Sassoon
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