1936 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF G G| All night they marched the infantrymen under pack | A |
| But the hands gripping the rifles were naked bone | B |
| And the hollow pits of the eyes stared vacant and black | A |
| When the moonlight shone | B |
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| The gas mask lay like a blot on the empty chest | C |
| The slanting helmets were spattered with rust and mold | D |
| But they burrowed the hill for the machine gun nest | C |
| As they had of old | D |
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| And the guns rolled and the tanks but there was no sound | E |
| Never the gasp or rustle of living men | F |
| Where the skeletons strung their wire on disputed ground | E |
| I knew them then | F |
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| 'It's eighteen years ' I cried 'You must come no more ' | - |
| 'We know your names We know that you are the dead | G |
| Must you march forever from France and the last blind war ' | - |
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| 'Fool From the next ' | - |
| they said | G |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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