Arms And The Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IIJK| Let the boy try along this bayonet blade | A |
| How cold steel is and keen with hunger of blood | B |
| Blue with all malice like a madman's flash | C |
| And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh | D |
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| Lend him to stroke these blind blunt bullet heads | E |
| Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads | F |
| Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth | G |
| Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death | H |
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| For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple | I |
| There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple | I |
| And God will grow no talons at his heels | J |
| Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls | K |
Wilfred Owen
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