Asleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBBABA BCBDCDECECEC| Under his helmet up against his pack | A |
| After the many days of work and waking | B |
| Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back | A |
| And in the happy no time of his sleeping | B |
| Death took him by the heart There was a quaking | B |
| Of the aborted life within him leaping | B |
| Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack | A |
| And soon the slow stray blood came creeping | B |
| From the intrusive lead like ants on track | A |
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| Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking | B |
| Of great wings and the thoughts that hung the stars | C |
| High pillowed on calm pillows of God's making | B |
| Above these clouds these rains these sleets of lead | D |
| And these winds' scimitars | C |
| Or whether yet his thin and sodden head | D |
| Confuses more and more with the low mould | E |
| His hair being one with the grey grass | C |
| And finished fields of autumns that are old | E |
| Who knows Who hopes Who troubles Let it pass | C |
| He sleeps He sleeps less tremulous less cold | E |
| Than we who must awake and waking say Alas | C |
Wilfred Owen
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