On The Wire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCDEEDAFAF GEGEHHIDIDJJKDKDAFAF JJDDLMLMDDFF NDNDOOPQQPPPPPRSTTDU DF VWVPPPPPP DADAIIPPXXYFYF| O God take the sun from the sky | A |
| It's burning me scorching me up | B |
| God can't You hear my cry | A |
| Water A poor little cup | B |
| It's laughing the cursed sun | C |
| See how it swells and swells | D |
| Fierce as a hundred hells | D |
| God will it never have done | C |
| It's searing the flesh on my bones | D |
| It's beating with hammers red | E |
| My eyeballs into my head | E |
| It's parching my very moans | D |
| See It's the size of the sky | A |
| And the sky is a torrent of fire | F |
| Foaming on me as I lie | A |
| Here on the wire the wire | F |
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| Of the thousands that wheeze and hum | G |
| Heedlessly over my head | E |
| Why can't a bullet come | G |
| Pierce to my brain instead | E |
| Blacken forever my brain | H |
| Finish forever my pain | H |
| Here in the hellish glare | I |
| Why must I suffer so | D |
| Is it God doesn't care | I |
| Is it God doesn't know | D |
| Oh to be killed outright | J |
| Clean in the clash of the fight | J |
| That is a golden death | K |
| That is a boon but this | D |
| Drawing an anguished breath | K |
| Under a hot abyss | D |
| Under a stooping sky | A |
| Of seething sulphurous fire | F |
| Scorching me up as I lie | A |
| Here on the wire the wire | F |
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| Hasten O God Thy night | J |
| Hide from my eyes the sight | J |
| Of the body I stare and see | D |
| Shattered so hideously | D |
| I can't believe that it's mine | L |
| My body was white and sweet | M |
| Flawless and fair and fine | L |
| Shapely from head to feet | M |
| Oh no I can never be | D |
| The thing of horror I see | D |
| Under the rifle fire | F |
| Trussed on the wire the wire | F |
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| Of night and of death I dream | N |
| Night that will bring me peace | D |
| Coolness and starry gleam | N |
| Stillness and death's release | D |
| Ages and ages have passed | O |
| Lo it is night at last | O |
| Night but the guns roar out | P |
| Night but the hosts attack | Q |
| Red and yellow and black | Q |
| Geysers of doom upspout | P |
| Silver and green and red | P |
| Star shells hover and spread | P |
| Yonder off to the right | P |
| Fiercely kindles the fight | P |
| Roaring near and more near | R |
| Thundering now in my ear | S |
| Close to me close Oh hark | T |
| Someone moans in the dark | T |
| I hear but I cannot see | D |
| I hear as the rest retire | U |
| Someone is caught like me | D |
| Caught on the wire the wire | F |
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| Again the shuddering dawn | V |
| Weird and wicked and wan | W |
| Again and I've not yet gone | V |
| The man whom I heard is dead | P |
| Now I can understand | P |
| A bullet hole in his head | P |
| A pistol gripped in his hand | P |
| Well he knew what to do | P |
| Yes and now I know too | P |
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| - | |
| Hark the resentful guns | D |
| Oh how thankful am I | A |
| To think my beloved ones | D |
| Will never know how I die | A |
| I've suffered more than my share | I |
| I'm shattered beyond repair | I |
| I've fought like a man the fight | P |
| And now I demand the right | P |
| God how his fingers cling | X |
| To do without shame this thing | X |
| Good there's a bullet still | Y |
| Now I'm ready to fire | F |
| Blame me God if You will | Y |
| Here on the wire the wire | F |
Robert Service
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