Maundy Thursday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDADAEEFFGG| Between the brown hands of a server lad | A |
| The silver cross was offered to be kissed | B |
| The men came up lugubrious but not sad | A |
| And knelt reluctantly half prejudiced | C |
| And kissing kissed the emblem of a creed | D |
| Then mourning women knelt meek mouths they had | A |
| And kissed the Body of the Christ indeed | D |
| Young children came with eager lips and glad | A |
| These kissed a silver doll immensely bright | E |
| Then I too knelt before that acolyte | E |
| Above the crucifix I bent my head | F |
| The Christ was thin and cold and very dead | F |
| And yet I bowed yea kissed my lips did cling | G |
| I kissed the warm live hand that held the thing | G |
Wilfred Owen
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