Has Your Soul Sipped? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDEE FEGEHE HIJK HHHH LJMJ AHAH JAJA NOKP AHAH AQANHas your soul sipped | A |
Of the sweetness of all sweets | B |
Has it well supped | A |
But yet hungers and sweats | C |
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I have been witness | D |
Of a strange sweetness | D |
All fancy surpassing | E |
Past all supposing | E |
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Passing the rays | F |
Of the rubies of morning | E |
Or the soft rise | G |
Of the moon or the meaning | E |
Known to the rose | H |
Of her mystery and mourning | E |
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Sweeter than nocturnes | H |
Of the wild nightingale | I |
Or than love's nectar | J |
After life's gall | K |
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Sweeter than odours | H |
Of living leaves | H |
Sweeter than ardours | H |
Of dying loves | H |
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Sweeter than death | L |
And dreams hereafter | J |
To one in dearth | M |
Or life and its laughter | J |
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Or the proud wound | A |
The victor wears | H |
Or the last end | A |
Of all wars | H |
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Or the sweet murder | J |
After long guard | A |
Unto the martyr | J |
Smiling at God | A |
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To me was that smile | N |
Faint as a wan worn myth | O |
Faint and exceeding small | K |
On a boy's murdered mouth | P |
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Though from his throat | A |
The life tide leaps | H |
There was no threat | A |
On his lips | H |
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But with the bitter blood | A |
And the death smell | Q |
All his life's sweetness bled | A |
Into a smile | N |
Wilfred Owen
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