Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EEEF A G HIII IJIJ IKIK A L IEEIE BMMBM NOON| I | A |
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| THE RETURN | B |
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| He went and he was gay to go | C |
| And I smiled on him as he went | D |
| My boy 'Twas well he couldn't know | C |
| My darkest dread or what it meant | D |
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| Just what it meant to smile and smile | E |
| And let my son go cheerily | E |
| My son and wondering all the while | E |
| What stranger would come back to me | F |
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| II | A |
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| THE DANCERS | G |
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| All day beneath the hurtling shells | H |
| Before my burning eyes | I |
| Hover the dainty demoiselles | I |
| The peacock dragon flies | I |
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| Unceasingly they dart and glance | I |
| Above the stagnant stream | J |
| And I am fighting here in France | I |
| As in a senseless dream | J |
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| A dream of shattering black shells | I |
| That hurtle overhead | K |
| And dainty dancing demoiselles | I |
| Above the dreamless dead | K |
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| III | A |
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| HIT | L |
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| Out of the sparkling sea | I |
| I drew my tingling body clear and lay | E |
| On a low ledge the livelong summer day | E |
| Basking and watching lazily | I |
| White sails in Falmouth Bay | E |
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| My body seemed to burn | B |
| Salt in the sun that drenched it through and through | M |
| Till every particle glowed clean and new | M |
| And slowly seemed to turn | B |
| To lucent amber in a world of blue | M |
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| I felt a sudden wrench | N |
| A trickle of warm blood | O |
| And found that I was sprawling in the mud | O |
| Among the dead men in the trench | N |
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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