A Letter From The Front Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HGIBJHKBLHMNHOPBQ RS| I was out early to day spying about | A |
| From the top of a haystack such a lovely morning | B |
| And when I mounted again to canter back | C |
| I saw across a field in the broad sunlight | D |
| A young Gunner Subaltern stalking along | E |
| With a rook rifle held at the read and would you believe it | F |
| A domestic cat soberly marching beside him | G |
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| So I laughed and felt quite well disposed to the youngster | H |
| And shouted out the top of the morning to him | G |
| And wished him Good sport and then I remembered | I |
| My rank and his and what I ought to be doing | B |
| And I rode nearer and added I can only suppose | J |
| You have not seen the Commander in Chief's order | H |
| Forbidding English officers to annoy their Allies | K |
| By hunting and shooting | B |
| But he stood and saluted | L |
| And said earnestly I beg your pardon Sir | H |
| I was only going out to shoot a sparrow | M |
| To feed my cat with | N |
| So there was the whole picture | H |
| The lovely early morning the occasional shell | O |
| Screeching and scattering past us the empty landscape | P |
| Empty except for the young Gunner saluting | B |
| And the cat anxiously watching his every movement | Q |
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| I may be wrong or I may have told it badly | R |
| But it struck me as being extremely ludicrous | S |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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