And There Was A Great Calm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABBA A CDCCD A EFEEF A GHGGH A AIAAI A DJDDJ A KLKML A NONNO D DADDA| I | A |
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| There had been years of Passion scorching cold | B |
| And much Despair and Anger heaving high | A |
| Care whitely watching Sorrows manifold | B |
| Among the young among the weak and old | B |
| And the pensive Spirit of Pity whispered Why | A |
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| II | A |
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| Men had not paused to answer Foes distraught | C |
| Pierced the thinned peoples in a brute like blindness | D |
| Philosophies that sages long had taught | C |
| And Selflessness were as an unknown thought | C |
| And Hell and Shell were yapped at Lovingkindness | D |
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| III | A |
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| The feeble folk at home had grown full used | E |
| To dug outs snipers Huns from the war adept | F |
| In the mornings heard and at evetides perused | E |
| To day dreamt men in millions when they mused | E |
| To nightmare men in millions when they slept | F |
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| IV | A |
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| Waking to wish existence timeless null | G |
| Sirius they watched above where armies fell | H |
| He seemed to check his flapping when in the lull | G |
| Of night a boom came thencewise like the dull | G |
| Plunge of a stone dropped into some deep well | H |
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| V | A |
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| So when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly | A |
| Were dead and damned there sounded War is done | I |
| One morrow Said the bereft and meek and lowly | A |
| Will men some day be given to grace yea wholly | A |
| And in good sooth as our dreams used to run | I |
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| VI | A |
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| Breathless they paused Out there men raised their glance | D |
| To where had stood those poplars lank and lopped | J |
| As they had raised it through the four years' dance | D |
| Of Death in the now familiar flats of France | D |
| And murmured Strange this How All firing stopped | J |
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| VII | A |
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| Aye all was hushed The about to fire fired not | K |
| The aimed at moved away in trance lipped song | L |
| One checkless regiment slung a clinching shot | K |
| And turned The Spirit of Irony smirked out What | M |
| Spoil peradventures woven of Rage and Wrong | L |
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| VIII | A |
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| Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray | N |
| No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn | O |
| No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray | N |
| Worn horses mused We are not whipped to day | N |
| No weft winged engines blurred the moon's thin horn | O |
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| IX | D |
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| Calm fell From Heaven distilled a clemency | D |
| There was peace on earth and silence in the sky | A |
| Some could some could not shake off misery | D |
| The Sinister Spirit sneered It had to be | D |
| And again the Spirit of Pity whispered Why | A |
Thomas Hardy
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