At The War Office, London. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBB A DEEDD| I | A |
| - | |
| Last year I called this world of gain givings | B |
| The darkest thinkable and questioned sadly | C |
| If my own land could heave its pulse less gladly | C |
| So charged it seemed with circumstance whence springs | B |
| The tragedy of things | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Yet at that censured time no heart was rent | D |
| Or feature blanched of parent wife or daughter | E |
| By hourly blazoned sheets of listed slaughter | E |
| Death waited Nature's wont Peace smiled unshent | D |
| From Ind to Occident | D |
Thomas Hardy
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