After The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDEFGBHB IHBHJIKILBHB| Last Post sounded | A |
| Across the mead | B |
| To where he loitered | B |
| With absent heed | B |
| Five years before | C |
| In the evening there | D |
| Had flown that call | E |
| To him and his Dear | F |
| You'll never come back | G |
| Good bye she had said | B |
| Here I'll be living | H |
| And my Love dead | B |
| - | |
| Those closing minims | I |
| Had been as shafts darting | H |
| Through him and her pressed | B |
| In that last parting | H |
| They thrilled him not now | J |
| In the selfsame place | I |
| With the selfsame sun | K |
| On his war seamed face | I |
| Lurks a god's laughter | L |
| In this he said | B |
| That I am the living | H |
| And she the dead | B |
Thomas Hardy
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