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