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y had lost their bootsá

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;á

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hootsá

Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

The structured "abab" rhyme scheme feels organized like a soldier's march, and works to convey the initial romanticized notion of war through their almost singsong quality. The words, themselves, however, convey an entirely different image. Owen uses stark visua

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