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Scansion – Breaking down meter
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Bent dou ble like old beg gars un der sacks
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knock kneed cou ghing like hags we cursed through sludge
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Till on the haunt ing fares we turned our backs
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And to wards our dis tant rest be gan to
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trudge
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Men
marche
d a sleep
. Ma ny had lost their boots
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But limped on, blood shod. All went
lame; all
blind;
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runk with !a tigue; dea! e" en to the hoots
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#! gas shells drop ping so!t ly be hind.
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$as% $as% &uick, boys% ' An es ta sy o!
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!um bling,
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(it ting the clum sy hel mets )ust in time
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But some one still was yel ling out and stum
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bling
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And foun der ing like a man in *re or
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lime
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imthroug
h the mis ty panes and thick green light,
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As un der a green sea, + saw him drown
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ing.
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+n all my dreams be !ore my help less sight
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e plun ges at me, gut ter ing cho king
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drown ing.
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+! in some smo ther ing
dream
s you too could
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pace
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Be hind the wa gon that we fung him in,
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And watch the white eyes wri thing in his !ace,
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is hang ing !ace, like a de "il-s sick o!
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