The Cool Web Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFF GHCC IJKCKC| Children are dumb to say how hot the day is | A |
| How hot the scent is of the summer rose | B |
| How dreadful the black wastes of evening sky | C |
| How dreadful the tall soldiers drumming by | C |
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| But we have speech to chill the angry day | D |
| And speech to dull the rose's cruel scent | E |
| We spell away the overhanging night | F |
| We spell away the soldiers and the fright | F |
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| There's a cool web of language winds us in | G |
| Retreat from too much joy or too much fear | H |
| We grow sea green at last and coldly die | C |
| In brininess and volubility | C |
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| But if we let our tongues lose self possession | I |
| Throwing off language and its watery clasp | J |
| Before our death instead of when death comes | K |
| Facing the wide glare of the children's day | C |
| Facing the rose the dark sky and the drums | K |
| We shall go mad no doubt and die that way | C |
Robert Graves
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