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Scansion – Breaking down meter 

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Scansion – Dulce et Decorum Est 

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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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