Beauty: [notes For An Unfinished Poem] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEEDFDG HHII JKLDMNODDPDP| The beautiful the fair the elegant | A |
| Is that which pleases us says Kant | B |
| Without a thought of interest or advantage | C |
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| I used to watch men when they spoke of beauty | D |
| And measure their enthusiasm One | E |
| An old man seeing a setting sun | E |
| Praised it a certain sense of duty | D |
| To the calm evening and his time of life | F |
| I know another man that never says a Beauty | D |
| But of a horse | G |
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| Men seldom speak of beauty beauty as such | H |
| Not even lovers think about it much | H |
| Women of course consider it for hours | I |
| In mirrors | I |
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| A shrapnel ball | J |
| Just where the wet skin glistened when he swam | K |
| Like a fully opened sea anemone | L |
| We both said 'What a beauty What a beauty lad' | D |
| I knew that in that flower he saw a hope | M |
| Of living on and seeing again the roses of his home | N |
| Beauty is that which pleases and delights | O |
| Not bringing personal advantage Kant | D |
| But later on I heard | D |
| A canker worked into that crimson flower | P |
| And that he sank with it | D |
| And laid it with the anemones off Dover | P |
Wilfred Owen
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