The Cenotaph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBDDBEEFBFBBBGH HGGGG| Not yet will those measureless fields be green again | A |
| Where only yesterday the wild sweet blood of wonderful youth was shed | B |
| There is a grave whose earth must hold too long too deep a stain | C |
| Though for ever over it we may speak as proudly as we may tread | B |
| But here where the watchers by lonely hearths from the thrust of an inward sword have more slowly bled | B |
| We shall build the Cenotaph Victory winged with Peace winged too at the column s head | B |
| And over the stairway at the foot oh here leave desolate passionate hands to spread | B |
| Violets roses and laurel with the small sweet tinkling country things | D |
| Speaking so wistfully of other Springs | D |
| From the little gardens of little places where son or sweetheart was born and bred | B |
| In splendid sleep with a thousand brothers | E |
| To lovers to mothers | E |
| Here too lies he | F |
| Under the purple the green the red | B |
| It is all young life it must break some women's hearts to see | F |
| Such a brave gay coverlet to such a bed | B |
| Only when all is done and said | B |
| God is not mocked and neither are the dead | B |
| For this will stand in our Marketplace | G |
| Who ll sell who ll buy | H |
| Will you or I | H |
| Lie each to each with the better grace | G |
| While looking into every busy whore's and huckster's face | G |
| As they drive their bargains is the Face | G |
| Of God and some young piteous murdered face | G |
Charlotte Mary Mew
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