Often When Warring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC CBBC DEFEDD| Often when warring for he wist not what | A |
| An enemy soldier passing by one weak | B |
| Has tendered water wiped the burning cheek | B |
| And cooled the lips so black and clammed and hot | C |
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| Then gone his way and maybe quite forgot | C |
| The deed of grace amid the roar and reek | B |
| Yet larger vision than loud arms bespeak | B |
| He there has reached although he has known it not | C |
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| For natural mindsight triumphing in the act | D |
| Over the throes of artificial rage | E |
| Has thuswise muffled victory's peal of pride | F |
| Rended to ribands policy's specious page | E |
| That deals but with evasion code and pact | D |
| And war's apology wholly stultified | D |
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Thomas Hardy
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