Disabled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC BDCDCED FGFHIFIJIJIK JKJKKKKKKK LKLKKLKLMM| He sat in a wheeled chair waiting for dark | A |
| And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey | B |
| Legless sewn short at elbow Through the park | A |
| Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn | C |
| Voices of play and pleasure after day | B |
| Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him | C |
| - | |
| About this time Town used to swing so gay | B |
| When glow lamps budded in the light blue trees | D |
| And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim | C |
| In the old times before he threw away his knees | D |
| Now he will never feel again how slim | C |
| Girls' waists are or how warm their subtle hands | E |
| All of them touch him like some queer disease | D |
| - | |
| There was an artist silly for his face | F |
| For it was younger than his youth last year | G |
| Now he is old his back will never brace | F |
| He's lost his colour very far from here | H |
| Poured it down shell holes till the veins ran dry | I |
| And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race | F |
| And leap of purple spurted from his thigh | I |
| One time he liked a bloodsmear down his leg | J |
| After the matches carried shoulder high | I |
| It was after football when he'd drunk a peg | J |
| He thought he'd better join He wonders why | I |
| Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts | K |
| - | |
| That's why and maybe too to please his Meg | J |
| Aye that was it to please the giddy jilts | K |
| He asked to join He didn't have to beg | J |
| Smiling they wrote his lie aged nineteen years | K |
| Germans he scarcely thought of and no fears | K |
| Of Fear came yet He thought of jewelled hilts | K |
| For daggers in plaid socks of smart salutes | K |
| And care of arms and leave and pay arrears | K |
| Esprit de corps and hints for young recruits | K |
| And soon he was drafted out with drums and cheers | K |
| - | |
| Some cheered him home but not as crowds cheer Goal | L |
| Only a solemn man who brought him fruits | K |
| Thanked him and then inquired about his soul | L |
| Now he will spend a few sick years in Institutes | K |
| And do what things the rules consider wise | K |
| And take whatever pity they may dole | L |
| To night he noticed how the women's eyes | K |
| Passed from him to the strong men that were whole | L |
| How cold and late it is Why don't they come | M |
| And put him into bed Why don't they come | M |
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Disabled
Disabled is a poem by Wilfred Edward Salter Owen. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Disabled poem by Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
Best Poems of Wilfred Edward Salter Owen