The Man In The Dead Machine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBED BFBGHIBDJB KLAMFBH| High on a slope in New Guinea | A |
| The Grumman Hellcat | B |
| lodges among bright vines | C |
| as thick as arms In | D |
| the clenched hand of a pilot | B |
| glided it here | E |
| where no one has ever been | D |
| - | |
| In the cockpit the helmeted | B |
| skeleton sits | F |
| upright held | B |
| by dry sinews at neck | G |
| and shoulder and webbing | H |
| that straps the pelvic cross | I |
| to the cracked | B |
| leather of the seat and the breastbone | D |
| to the canvas cover | J |
| of the parachute | B |
| - | |
| Or say the shrapnel | K |
| missed him he flew | L |
| back to the carrier and every | A |
| morning takes the train his pale | M |
| hands on the black case and sits | F |
| upright held | B |
| by the firm webbing | H |
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