Wolves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDA EFGHG IJHKH| I do not want to be reflective any more | A |
| Envying and despising unreflective things | B |
| Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting | C |
| And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of sand | D |
| Flushed by the children s bedtime level with the shore | A |
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| The tide comes in and goes out again I do not want | E |
| To be always stressing either its flux or its permanence | F |
| I do not want to be a tragic or philosophic chorus | G |
| But to keep my eye only on the nearer future | H |
| And after that let the sea flow over us | G |
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| Come then all of you come closer form a circle | I |
| Join hands and make believe that joined | J |
| Hands will keep away the wolves of water | H |
| Who howl along our coast And be it assumed | K |
| That no one hears them among the talk and laughter | H |
Louis Macneice
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