In The Trenches Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNONPQRQ S| All day the guns belched fire and death | A |
| And filled the hours with gloom | B |
| The fateful music smote the sky | C |
| In tremulous bars of doom | B |
| But as the evening stars came forth | D |
| A truce to death and strife | E |
| There rose from hearts of patriot love | F |
| A tender song of life | E |
| - | |
| A song of home and fireside | G |
| Swelled on the evening air | H |
| And men forgot their battle line | I |
| Its carnage and dark care | H |
| The soldier dropp'd his rifle | J |
| And joined the choral song | K |
| As high above the tide of war | L |
| It swept and pulsed along | K |
| - | |
| That night while sleeping where the stars | M |
| Look down upon the Meuse | N |
| Where Teuton valor coped with Frank | O |
| Where rained most deadly dews | N |
| A soldier youth in khaki clad | P |
| Rock'd where the maples grow | Q |
| Smiled in his dream and saw again | R |
| The blue St Lawrence flow | Q |
| - | |
| For Miss Julia O'Sullivan | S |
Thomas O'hagan
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