Channel Firing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF HIHI JKJK HFHF LMLM HNHN| That night your great guns unawares | A |
| Shook all our coffins as we lay | B |
| And broke the chancel window squares | A |
| We thought it was the Judgement day | B |
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| And sat upright While drearisome | C |
| Arose the howl of wakened hounds | D |
| The mouse let fall the altar crumb | C |
| The worm drew back into the mounds | D |
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| The glebe cow drooled Till God cried No | E |
| It's gunnery practice out at sea | F |
| Just as before you went below | E |
| The world is as it used to be | F |
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| All nations striving strong to make | G |
| Red war yet redder Mad as hatters | F |
| They do no more for Christ eacute s sake | G |
| Than you who are helpless in such matters | F |
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| That this is not the judgment hour | H |
| For some of them's a blessed thing | I |
| For if it were they'd have to scour | H |
| Hell's floor for so much threatening | I |
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| Ha ha It will be warmer when | J |
| I blow the trumpet if indeed | K |
| I ever do for you are men | J |
| And rest eternal sorely need | K |
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| So down we lay again I wonder | H |
| Will the world ever saner be | F |
| Said one than when He sent us under | H |
| In our indifferent century | F |
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| And many a skeleton shook his head | L |
| Instead of preaching forty year | M |
| My neighbour Parson Thirdly said | L |
| I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer | M |
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| Again the guns disturbed the hour | H |
| Roaring their readiness to avenge | N |
| As far inland as Stourton Tower | H |
| And Camelot and starlit Stonehenge | N |
Thomas Hardy
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