Quiet Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KJKJ| The boys come home come home from war | A |
| With quiet eyes for quiet things | B |
| A child a lamb a flower a star | C |
| A bird that softly sings | B |
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| Young faces war worn and deep lined | D |
| The satin smoothness past recall | E |
| Yet out of sight is out of mind | D |
| For the worst wrong of all | E |
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| As nightmare dreams that pass with sleep | F |
| The horror and grief intolerable | G |
| The unremembering young eyes keep | F |
| Their innocence All is well | H |
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| The worldling's eyes are dusty dim | I |
| The eyes of sin are weary and cold | J |
| The fighting boy brings home with him | I |
| The unsullied eyes of old | J |
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| The war has furrowed the young face | K |
| Oh there's no all heal no wound wort | J |
| The soul looks from its hidden place | K |
| Unharmed unflawed unhurt | J |
Katharine Tynan
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