Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEEFFCCCCGGHHCCIIJJ KLMNNOOPP QQDRSTS| August Officer previously reported | A |
| died of wounds now reported wounded Graves Captain R | B |
| Royal Welch Fusiliers | C |
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| But I was dead an hour or more | D |
| I woke when I'd already passed the door | D |
| That Cerberus guards and half way down the road | E |
| To Lethe as an old Greek signpost showed | E |
| Above me on my stretcher swinging by | F |
| I saw new stars in the subterrene sky | F |
| A Cross a Rose in bloom a Cage with bars | C |
| And a barbed Arrow feathered in fine stars | C |
| I felt the vapours of forgetfulness | C |
| Float in my nostrils Oh may Heaven bless | C |
| Dear Lady Proserpine who saw me wake | G |
| And stooping over me for Henna's sake | G |
| Cleared my poor buzzing head and sent me back | H |
| Breathless with leaping heart along the track | H |
| After me roared and clattered angry hosts | C |
| Of demons heroes and policeman ghosts | C |
| Life life I can't be dead I won't be dead | I |
| Damned if I'll die for any one I said | I |
| Cerberus stands and grins above me now | J |
| Wearing three heads lion and lynx and sow | J |
| Quick a revolver But my Webley's gone | K |
| Stolen No bombs no knife | L |
| The crowd swarms on | M |
| Bellows hurls stones Not even a honeyed sop | N |
| Nothing Good Cerberus Good dog but stop | N |
| Stay A great luminous thought I do believe | O |
| There's still some morphia that I bought on leave | O |
| Then swiftly Cerberus' wide mouths I cram | P |
| With army biscuit smeared with ration jam | P |
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| And sleep lurks in the luscious plum and apple | Q |
| He crunches swallows stiffens seems to grapple | Q |
| With the all powerful poppy then a snore | D |
| A crash the beast blocks up the corridor | R |
| With monstrous hairy carcase red and dun | S |
| Too late for I've sped through | T |
| O Life O Sun | S |
Robert Graves
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