Haunted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKL MNO PQRSTUVW NXYGZA2 B2C2D2 GE2F2G2G2 H2I2D2J2K2| Evening was in the wood louring with storm | A |
| A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool | B |
| And baked the channels birds had done with song | C |
| Thirst was a dream of fountains in the moon | D |
| Or willow music blown across the water | E |
| Leisurely sliding on by weir and mill | F |
| - | |
| Uneasy was the man who wandered brooding | G |
| His face a little whiter than the dusk | H |
| A drone of sultry wings flicker'd in his head | I |
| The end of sunset burning thro' the boughs | J |
| Died in a smear of red exhausted hours | K |
| Cumber'd and ugly sorrows hemmed him in | L |
| - | |
| He thought 'Somewhere there's thunder ' as he strove | M |
| To shake off dread he dared not look behind him | N |
| But stood the sweat of horror on his face | O |
| - | |
| He blunder'd down a path trampling on thistles | P |
| In sudden race to leave the ghostly trees | Q |
| And 'Soon I'll be in open fields ' he thought | R |
| And half remembered starlight on the meadows | S |
| Scent of mown grass and voices of tired men | T |
| Fading along the field paths home and sleep | U |
| And cool swept upland spaces whispering leaves | V |
| And far off the long churring night jar's note | W |
| - | |
| But something in the wood trying to daunt him | N |
| Led him confused in circles through the thicket | X |
| He was forgetting his old wretched folly | Y |
| And freedom was his need his throat was choking | G |
| Barbed brambles gripped and clawed him round his legs | Z |
| And he floundered over snags and hidden stumps | A2 |
| Mumbling 'I will get out I must get out ' | - |
| Butting and thrusting up the baffling gloom | B2 |
| Pausing to listen in a space 'twixt thorns | C2 |
| He peers around with peering frantic eyes | D2 |
| - | |
| An evil creature in the twilight looping | G |
| Flapped blindly in his face Beating it off | E2 |
| He screeched in terror and straightway something clambered | F2 |
| Heavily from an oak and dropped bent double | G2 |
| To shamble at him zigzag squat and bestial | G2 |
| - | |
| Headlong he charges down the wood and falls | H2 |
| With roaring brain agony the snap't spark | I2 |
| And blots of green and purple in his eyes | D2 |
| Then the slow fingers groping on his neck | J2 |
| And at his heart the strangling clasp of death | K2 |
Siegfried Sassoon
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