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"In Flanders Fields" is a three-stanza poem by Canadian poet and physician John McCrae. It was originally published in 1915 in the London magazine Punch. "In Flanders Fields" is a rondeau, a poetic form that dates back to the thirteenth century and was traditionally accompanied by music due to its repeated refrain. In the poem, a communal speaker describes lying "in Flanders Fields," a common name for the battleground in France and Belgium during the First World War.