Last Post Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACDDEEDDBBFD GGBBGCDDHHDDBBFD| THE day's high work is over and done | A |
| And these no more will need the sun | A |
| Blow you bugles of England blow | B |
| These are gone where all must go | B |
| Mightily gone from the field they won | A |
| So in the workaday wear of battle | C |
| Touched to glory with God's own red | D |
| Bear we our chosen to their bed | D |
| Settle them lovingly where they fell | E |
| In that good lap they loved so well | E |
| And their deliveries to the dear Lord said | D |
| And the last desperate volleys ranged and sped | D |
| Blow you bugles of England blow | B |
| Over the camps of her beaten foe | B |
| Blow glory and pity to the victor Mother | F |
| Sad O sad in her sacrificial dead | D |
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| Labour and love and strife and mirth | G |
| They gave their part in this kindly earth | G |
| Blow you bugles of England blow | B |
| That her Name as a sun among stars might glow | B |
| Till the dusk of time with honour and worth | G |
| That stung by lust and the pain of battle | C |
| The One Race ever might starkly spread | D |
| And the One Flag eagle it overhead | D |
| In a rapture of wrath and faith and pride | H |
| Thus they felt it and thus they died | H |
| So to the Maker of homes to the Giver of bread | D |
| For whose dear sake their triumphing souls they shed | D |
| Blow you bugles of England blow | B |
| Though you break the heart of her beaten foe | B |
| Glory and praise to the everlasting Mother | F |
| Glory and peace to her lovely and faithful dead | D |
William Ernest Henley
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