Has Your Soul Sipped? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDEE FEGEHE HIJK HHHH LJMJ AHAH JAJA NOKP AHAH AQAN| Has your soul sipped | A |
| Of the sweetness of all sweets | B |
| Has it well supped | A |
| But yet hungers and sweats | C |
| - | |
| I have been witness | D |
| Of a strange sweetness | D |
| All fancy surpassing | E |
| Past all supposing | E |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Sweeter than nocturnes | H |
| Of the wild nightingale | I |
| Or than love's nectar | J |
| After life's gall | K |
| - | |
| Sweeter than odours | H |
| Of living leaves | H |
| Sweeter than ardours | H |
| Of dying loves | H |
| - | |
| Sweeter than death | L |
| And dreams hereafter | J |
| To one in dearth | M |
| Or life and its laughter | J |
| - | |
| Or the proud wound | A |
| The victor wears | H |
| Or the last end | A |
| Of all wars | H |
| - | |
| Or the sweet murder | J |
| After long guard | A |
| Unto the martyr | J |
| Smiling at God | A |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Though from his throat | A |
| The life tide leaps | H |
| There was no threat | A |
| On his lips | H |
| - | |
| 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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