PART A : POETRY - National Adult Literacy Database
PART A : POETRY - National Adult Literacy Database
PART A : POETRY - National Adult Literacy Database
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7<br />
c / c / c /<br />
3<br />
“He thought he’d ‘list , perhaps,<br />
c / c / c /<br />
Off-hand-like--just as I--<br />
c / c / c / c /<br />
4<br />
Was out of work--had sold his traps --<br />
c / c / c /<br />
No other reason why.<br />
/ / c / c / c<br />
“Yes, quaint and curious war is!<br />
c / c / c /<br />
You shoot a fellow down<br />
/ c / c / c / c<br />
You’d treat, if met where any bar is,<br />
c / c / c /<br />
5<br />
Or help to half-a-crown .”<br />
The pattern is not perfectly iambic. Notice that there are a few anapestic and<br />
trochaic rhythms thrown in. This is a good mixture that saves the poem from<br />
becoming too mechanical and forces the reader to slow down and pay more<br />
attention to the lines that show the poet’s thoughts on war.<br />
3<br />
4<br />
5<br />
‘list....enlist in the army<br />
traps....his belongings<br />
half-a-crown....an English coin, enough to buy a beer or two
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