Killed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PPQQ| Lieutenant Keen was great and yet | A |
| He would look over the parapet | A |
| And something smacked him in the head | B |
| And he lay down as dead as dead | B |
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| He sluttered down all proud and grim | C |
| And we set to and buried him | C |
| All night he lay and took his rest | D |
| With lumps of Flanders on his breast | D |
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| All day he lay in Flanders ground | E |
| And rested rested good and sound | E |
| But when the dog star glittered clear | F |
| He calls By Jove it's dark down here | G |
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| Sergeant ain't I for rounds sings he | H |
| And where's the bally Company | H |
| And he was answered with respect | I |
| Here sir all present and correct | I |
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| And sure as I'm a man at night | J |
| He comes along the trench as white | J |
| And cheerful as the bless d saints | K |
| To see if there was no complaints | K |
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| They cannot quieten that boy's ghost | L |
| He'll have no truck with no Last Post | L |
| They mark him Killed but you may swear | M |
| He's with us be it foul or fair | M |
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| He goes before us like young fire | N |
| A soldier of his soul's desire | N |
| Through the hell reek that smothers us | O |
| He fathers us and mothers us | O |
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| When we have pushed the German swine | P |
| Across the pretty river Rhine | P |
| Maybe he'll bide where he was spent | Q |
| And lie down happy and content | Q |
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
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