Reading In Wartime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDBEFEGHIJGIKLMLK MNOOPQROPRSQTUVWSVW| Boswell by my bed | A |
| Tolstoy on my table | B |
| Thought the world has bled | A |
| For four and a half years | C |
| And wives' and mothers' tears | D |
| Collected would be able | B |
| To water a little field | E |
| Untouched by anger and blood | F |
| A penitential yield | E |
| Somewhere in the world | G |
| Though in each latitude | H |
| Armies like forest fall | I |
| The iniquitous and the good | J |
| Head over heels hurled | G |
| And confusion over all | I |
| Boswell's turbulent friend | K |
| And his deafening verbal strife | L |
| Ivan Ilych's death | M |
| Tell me more about life | L |
| The meaning and the end | K |
| Of our familiar breath | M |
| Both being personal | N |
| Than all the carnage can | O |
| Retrieve the shape of man | O |
| Lost and anonymous | P |
| Tell me wherever I look | Q |
| That not one soul can die | R |
| Of this or any clan | O |
| Who is not one of us | P |
| And has a personal tie | R |
| Perhaps to someone now | S |
| Searching an ancient book | Q |
| Folk tale or country song | T |
| In many and many a tongue | U |
| To find the original face | V |
| The individual soul | W |
| The eye the lip the brow | S |
| For ever gone from their place | V |
| And gather an image whole | W |
Edwin Muir
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