Said The Wounded One: Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFG HIJI KILJ| Just see that we get full value | A |
| Of that for which we have paid | B |
| The price has been a heavy one | C |
| But the goods are there and we've paid | B |
| We've paid in our toil and our woundings | D |
| We've paid in the blood we've shed | E |
| We've paid in our bitter hardships | D |
| We've paid with our many dead | E |
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| It's not payment in kind we ask for | F |
| Two wrongs don't make much of a right | G |
| All we ask is that what we have paid for | F |
| You secure for us all right and tight | G |
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| The Peace of the World's what we're after | H |
| We've all had enough of King Cain | I |
| And the Kaiser and all his bully men | J |
| With their World Power big on the brain | I |
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| No we fought with a definite object | K |
| And it's this and we want it made plain | I |
| That it's God and not any devil | L |
| That's to rule in the world again | J |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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