Talking With Soldiers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CBBD EFDB GHIJK ABKF BFLF DBBMN ABLBB| The mind of the people is like mud | A |
| From which arise strange and beautiful things | B |
| But mud is none the less mud | A |
| Though it bear orchids and prophesying Kings | B |
| Dreams trees and water's bright babblings | B |
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| It has found form and colour and light | C |
| The cold glimmer of the ice wrapped Poles | B |
| It has called a far off glow Arcturus | B |
| And some pale weeds lilies of the valley | D |
| - | |
| It has imagined Virgil Helen and Cassandra | E |
| The sack of Troy and the weeping for Hector | F |
| Rearing stark up 'mid all this beauty | D |
| In the thick dull neck of Ajax | B |
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| There is a dark Pine in Lapland | G |
| And the great figured Horn of the Reindeer | H |
| Moving soundlessly across the snow | I |
| Is its twin brother double dreamed | J |
| In the mind of a far off people | K |
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| It is strange that a little mud | A |
| Should echo with sounds syllables and letters | B |
| Should rise up and call a mountain Popocatapetl | K |
| And a green leafed wood Oleander | F |
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| These are the ghosts of invisible things | B |
| There is no Lapland no Helen and no Hector | F |
| And the Reindeer is a darkening of the brain | L |
| And Oleander is but Oleander | F |
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| Mary Magdalena and the vine Lachryma Christi | D |
| Were like ghosts up the ghost of Vesuvius | B |
| As I sat and drank wine with the soldiers | B |
| As I sat in the Inn on the mountain | M |
| Watching the shadows in my mind | N |
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| The mind of the people is like mud | A |
| Where are the imperishable things | B |
| The ghosts that flicker in the brain | L |
| Silent women orchids and prophesying Kings | B |
| Dreams trees and water's bright babblings | B |
W.j. Turner
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