Dulce Et Decorum Est Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGE GE HIHIJKJKJLJLBent double like old beggars under sacks | A |
Knock kneed coughing like hags we cursed through sludge | B |
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs | A |
And towards our distant rest began to trudge | B |
Men marched asleep Many had lost their boots | C |
But limped on blood shod All went lame all blind | D |
Drunk with fatigue deaf even to the hoots | C |
Of gas shells dropping softly behind | D |
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Gas GAS Quick boys An ecstasy of fumbling | E |
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time | F |
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling | E |
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime | F |
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light | G |
As under a green sea I saw him drowning | E |
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In all my dreams before my helpless sight | G |
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning | E |
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace | H |
Behind the wagon that we flung him in | I |
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face | H |
His hanging face like a devil's sick of sin | I |
If you could hear at every jolt the blood | J |
Come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs | K |
Bitter as the cud | J |
Of vile incurable sores on innocent tongues | K |
My friend you would not tell with such high zest | J |
To children ardent for some desperate glory | L |
The old Lie Dulce et decorum est | J |
Pro patria mori | L |
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
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