Then And Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDED FFGGHFHF FFIJKFKF| When battles were fought | A |
| With a chivalrous sense of should and ought | A |
| In spirit men said | B |
| End we quick or dead | B |
| Honour is some reward | C |
| Let us fight fair for our own best or worst | D |
| So Gentlemen of the Guard | E |
| Fire first | D |
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| In the open they stood | F |
| Man to man in his knightlihood | F |
| They would not deign | G |
| To profit by a stain | G |
| On the honourable rules | H |
| Knowing that practise perfidy no man durst | F |
| Who in the heroic schools | H |
| Was nurst | F |
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| But now behold what | F |
| Is war with those where honour is not | F |
| Rama laments | I |
| Its dead innocents | J |
| Herod howls Sly slaughter | K |
| Rules now Let us by modes once called accurst | F |
| Overhead under water | K |
| Stab first | F |
Thomas Hardy
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