Cambrai And Marne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDAA EEFG HHII JJKK KKBA KKKK KKII AAKK LLMM KKKA| Before our trenches at Cambrai | A |
| We saw their columns cringe away | B |
| We saw their masses melt and reel | C |
| Before our line of leaping steel | C |
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| A handful to their storming hordes | D |
| We scourged them with the scourge of swords | D |
| And still the more we slew the more | A |
| Came up for every slain a score | A |
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| Between the hedges and the town | E |
| The cursing squadrons we rode down | E |
| To stay them we outpoured our blood | F |
| Between the beetfields and the wood | G |
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| In that red hell of shrieking shell | H |
| Unfaltering our gunners fell | H |
| They fell or ere that day was done | I |
| Beside the last unshattered gun | I |
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| But still we held them like a wall | J |
| On which the breakers vainly fall | J |
| Till came the word and we obeyed | K |
| Reluctant bleeding undismayed | K |
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| Our feet astonished learned retreat | K |
| Our souls rejected still defeat | K |
| Unbroken still a lion at bay | B |
| We drew back grimly from Cambrai | A |
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| In blood and sweat with slaughter spent | K |
| They thought us beaten as we went | K |
| Till suddenly we turned and smote | K |
| The shout of triumph in their throat | K |
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| At last at last we turned and stood | K |
| And Marne's fair water ran with blood | K |
| We stood by trench and steel and gun | I |
| For now the indignant flight was done | I |
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| We ploughed their shaken ranks with fire | A |
| We trod their masses into mire | A |
| Our sabres drove through their retreat | K |
| As drives the whirlwind through young wheat | K |
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| At last at last we drove them back | L |
| Along their drenched and smoking track | L |
| We hurled them back in blood and flame | M |
| The reeking ways by which they came | M |
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| By cumbered road and desperate ford | K |
| How fled their shamed and harassed horde | K |
| Shout Sons of Freemen for the day | K |
| When Marne so well avenged Cambrai | A |
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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