Two Poems From The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA BBCDCE FGFGBHBE IBBGGG| Oh not the loss of the accomplished thing | A |
| Not dumb farewells nor long relinquishment | B |
| Of beauty had and golden summer spent | B |
| And savage glory of the fluttering | A |
| Torn banners of the rain and frosty ring | A |
| Of moon white winters and the imminent | B |
| Long lunging seas and glowing students bent | B |
| To race on some smooth beach the gull's wing | A |
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| Not these nor all we've been nor all we've loved | B |
| The pitiful familiar names had moved | B |
| Our hearts to weep for them but oh the star | C |
| The future is Eternity's too wan | D |
| To give again that undefeated far | C |
| All possible irradiance of dawn | E |
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| Like moon dark like brown water you escape | F |
| O laughing mouth O sweet uplifted lips | G |
| Within the peering brain old ghosts take shape | F |
| You flame and wither as the white foam slips | G |
| Back from the broken wave sometimes a start | B |
| A gesture of the hands a way you own | H |
| Of bending that smooth head above your heart | B |
| Then these are varied then the dream is gone | E |
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| Oh you are too much mine and flesh of me | I |
| To seal upon the brain who in the blood | B |
| Are so intense a pulse so swift a flood | B |
| Of beauty such unceasing instancy | G |
| Dear unimagined brow unvisioned face | G |
| All beauty has become your dwelling place | G |
Archibald Macleish
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