The Kiss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EBBE| To these I turn in these I trust | A |
| Brother Lead and Sister Steel | B |
| To his blind power I make appeal | B |
| I guard her beauty clean from rust | A |
| - | |
| He spins and burns and loves the air | C |
| And splits a skull to win my praise | D |
| But up the nobly marching days | D |
| She glitters naked cold and fair | C |
| - | |
| Sweet Sister grant your soldier this | E |
| That in good fury he may feel | B |
| The body where he sets his heel | B |
| Quail from your downward darting kiss | E |
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
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