The Going Of The Battery Wives. (lament) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC A EFEF A FGEG B EHDH E IJDJ B FKLK B MENE| I | A |
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| O it was sad enough weak enough mad enough | B |
| Light in their loving as soldiers can be | C |
| First to risk choosing them leave alone losing them | D |
| Now in far battle beyond the South Sea | C |
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| II | A |
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| Rain came down drenchingly but we unblenchingly | E |
| Trudged on beside them through mirk and through mire | F |
| They stepping steadily only too readily | E |
| Scarce as if stepping brought parting time nigher | F |
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| III | A |
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| Great guns were gleaming there living things seeming there | F |
| Cloaked in their tar cloths upmouthed to the night | G |
| Wheels wet and yellow from axle to felloe | E |
| Throats blank of sound but prophetic to sight | G |
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| IV | B |
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| Gas glimmers drearily blearily eerily | E |
| Lit our pale faces outstretched for one kiss | H |
| While we stood prest to them with a last quest to them | D |
| Not to court perils that honour could miss | H |
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| V | E |
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| Sharp were those sighs of ours blinded these eyes of ours | I |
| When at last moved away under the arch | J |
| All we loved Aid for them each woman prayed for them | D |
| Treading back slowly the track of their march | J |
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| VI | B |
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| Someone said Nevermore will they come evermore | F |
| Are they now lost to us O it was wrong | K |
| Though may be hard their ways some Hand will guard their ways | L |
| Bear them through safely in brief time or long | K |
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| VII | B |
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| Yet voices haunting us daunting us taunting us | M |
| Hint in the night time when life beats are low | E |
| Other and graver things Hold we to braver things | N |
| Wait we in trust what Time's fulness shall show | E |
Thomas Hardy
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