The War Widow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFG HGHG II A JKLK GMGM NONO PP| I | A |
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| Black veiled black gowned she rides in bus and train | B |
| With eyes that fill too listlessly for tears | C |
| Her waxen hands clasp and unclasp again | D |
| Good News they cry She neither sees nor hears | E |
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| Good News perhaps may crown some far off king | F |
| Good News may peal the glory of the state | G |
| Good News may cause the courts of heaven to ring | F |
| She sees a hand waved at a garden gate | G |
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| For her dull ears are tuned to other themes | H |
| And her dim eyes can never see aright | G |
| She glides a ghost through all her April dreams | H |
| To meet his eyes at dawn his lips at night | G |
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| Wraiths of a truth that others never knew | I |
| And yet for her the only truth that's true | I |
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| II | A |
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| Good News Good News There is no way but this | J |
| Out of the night a star begins to rise | K |
| I know not where my soul's deep Master is | L |
| Nor can I hear those angels in the skies | K |
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| Nor follow him as childhood used of old | G |
| By radiant seas in those time hallowed tales | M |
| Only at times implacable and cold | G |
| From this blind gloom stand out the iron nails | M |
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| Yet at this world's heart stands the Eternal Cross | N |
| The ultimate frame of moon and star and sun | O |
| Where Love with out stretched arms in utter loss | N |
| Points East and West and makes the whole world one | O |
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| Good News Good News There is no hope no way | P |
| No truth no life but leads through Christmas Day | P |
Alfred Noyes
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