Dulce Et Decorum Est Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGE GE HIHIJKJKJLJL| Bent 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 tired outstripped Five Nines that dropped 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 |
| Obscene as cancer 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 Owen
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