Smile, Smile, Smile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFEFGGGHIJIJ KLLKMM N| Head to limp head the sunk eyed wounded scanned | A |
| Yesterday's Mail the casualties typed small | B |
| And large Vast Booty from our Latest Haul | B |
| Also they read of Cheap Homes not yet planned | A |
| For said the paper When this war is done | C |
| The men's first instinct will be making homes | D |
| Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes | D |
| It being certain war has just begun | C |
| Peace would do wrong to our undying dead | E |
| The sons we offered might regret they died | F |
| If we got nothing lasting in their stead | E |
| We must be solidly indemnified | F |
| Though all be worthy Victory which all bought | G |
| We rulers sitting in this ancient spot | G |
| Would wrong our very selves if we forgot | G |
| The greatest glory will be theirs who fought | H |
| Who kept this nation in integrity | I |
| Nation The half limbed readers did not chafe | J |
| But smiled at one another curiously | I |
| Like secret men who know their secret safe | J |
| This is the thing they know and never speak | K |
| That England one by one had fled to France | L |
| Not many elsewhere now save under France | L |
| Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week | K |
| And people in whose voice real feeling rings | M |
| Say How they smile They're happy now poor things | M |
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| rd September | N |
Wilfred Owen
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