The Send-off Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA AB CDCCD EFE EF GGGGG| Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way | A |
| To the siding shed | B |
| And lined the train with faces grimly gay | A |
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| Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray | A |
| As men's are dead | B |
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| Dull porters watched them and a casual tramp | C |
| Stood staring hard | D |
| Sorry to miss them from the upland camp | C |
| Then unmoved signals nodded and a lamp | C |
| Winked to the guard | D |
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| So secretly like wrongs hushed up they went | E |
| They were not ours | F |
| We never heard to which front these were sent | E |
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| Nor there if they yet mock what women meant | E |
| Who gave them flowers | F |
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| Shall they return to beatings of great bells | G |
| In wild trainloads | G |
| A few a few too few for drums and yells | G |
| May creep back silent to still village wells | G |
| Up half known roads | G |
Wilfred Owen
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