Where Are You Sleeping To-night, My Lad? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB ADEED FBGGB HIJKI ABLLB| Where are you sleeping to night My Lad | A |
| Above ground or below | B |
| The last we heard you were up at the front | C |
| Holding a trench and bearing the brunt | C |
| But that was a week ago | B |
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| Ay that was a week ago Dear Lad | A |
| And a week is a long long time | D |
| When a second's enough in the thick of the strife | E |
| To sever the thread of the bravest life | E |
| And end it in its prime | D |
| - | |
| Oh a week is long when so little's enough | F |
| To send a man below | B |
| It may be that while we named your name | G |
| The bullet sped and the quick end came | G |
| And the rest we shall never know | B |
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| But this we know Dear Lad all's well | H |
| With the man who has done his best | I |
| And whether he live or whether he die | J |
| He is sacred high in our memory | K |
| And to God we can leave the rest | I |
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| So wherever you're sleeping to night Dear Lad | A |
| This one thing we do know | B |
| When Last Post sounds and He makes His rounds | L |
| Not one of you all will be out of bounds | L |
| Above ground or below | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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