On Receiving News Of The War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGHG IJIJ KLKL| Snow is a strange white word | A |
| No ice or frost | B |
| Has asked of bud or bird | A |
| For Winter's cost | C |
| - | |
| Yet ice and frost and snow | D |
| From earth to sky | E |
| This Summer land doth know | D |
| No man knows why | E |
| - | |
| In all men's hearts it is | F |
| Some spirit old | G |
| Hath turned with malign kiss | H |
| Our lives to mould | G |
| - | |
| Red fangs have torn His face | I |
| God's blood is shed | J |
| He mourns from His lone place | I |
| His children dead | J |
| - | |
| O ancient crimson curse | K |
| Corrode consume | L |
| Give back this universe | K |
| Its pristine bloom | L |
Isaac Rosenberg
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