To A Very Wise Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE A FGFGFHFH A IJIJKFKF| I | A |
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| Fires in the dark you build tall quivering flames | B |
| In the huge midnight forest of the unknown | C |
| Your soul is full of cities with dead names | B |
| And blind faced earth bound gods of bronze and stone | C |
| Whose priests and kings and lust begotten lords | D |
| Watch the procession of their thundering hosts | E |
| Or guard relentless fanes with flickering swords | D |
| And wizardry of ghosts | E |
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| II | A |
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| In a strange house I woke heard overhead | F |
| Hastily thudding feet and a muffled scream | G |
| Is death like that I quaked uncomforted | F |
| Striving to frame to morrow in a dream | G |
| Of woods and sliding pools and cloudless day | F |
| You know how bees come into a twilight room | H |
| From dazzling afternoon then sail away | F |
| Out of the curtained gloom | H |
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| III | A |
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| You understand my thoughts though when you think | I |
| You're out beyond the boundaries of my brain | J |
| I'm but a bird at dawn that cries 'chink chink' | I |
| A garden bird that warbles in the rain | J |
| And you're the flying man the speck that steers | K |
| A careful course far down the verge of day | F |
| Half way across the world Above the years | K |
| You soar Is death so bad I wish you'd say | F |
Siegfried Sassoon
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