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        <title><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy's "Channel Firing" is made up of nine four lined stanzas...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thomas Hardy's "Channel Firing" is made up of nine four lined stanzas with each alternate line rhyming. The rhyme scheme of the entire poem is: a b a b  c d c d  e f e f  g h g h  i j i j  k l k l  m n m n  o p o p  q r q r.
The meter used throughout the poem is iambic tetrameter, that is there are eight syllables in each line with the first syllable being unstressed and the second being stressed:
We thought it was the Judgement-day....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meter and rhyme scheme of "Channel Firing?"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the meter and rhyme scheme of "Channel Firing?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:05:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Channel Firing, by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is a dialogue among the dead...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Channel Firing, by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is a dialogue among the dead who are awakened by the naval &quot;great guns&quot; firing artillery in the English Channel. The central theme of the poem suggests that warfare has gotten so destructive that  Armageddon, the final battle at the end of the world, is at hand, and the dead are awakened for Judgment Day. God reassures them that no, it's just the living engaging in &quot;redder&quot;...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:12:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Could I have an explanation of the poem &quot;Channel Firing?&quot; ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Could I have an explanation of the poem &quot;Channel Firing?&quot; ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:50:50 PST</pubDate>
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