Mental Cases Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHC HIHJJKLJM HNOPQRJSJQ| Who are these Why sit they here in twilight | A |
| Wherefore rock they purgatorial shadows | B |
| Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish | C |
| Baring teeth that leer like skulls' tongues wicked | D |
| Stroke on stroke of pain but what slow panic | E |
| Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets | F |
| Ever from their hair and through their hand palms | G |
| Misery swelters Surely we have perished | H |
| Sleeping and walk hell but who these hellish | C |
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| These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished | H |
| Memory fingers in their hair of murders | I |
| Multitudinous murders they once witnessed | H |
| Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander | J |
| Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter | J |
| Always they must see these things and hear them | K |
| Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles | L |
| Carnage incomparable and human squander | J |
| Rucked too thick for these men's extrication | M |
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| Therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented | H |
| Back into their brains because on their sense | N |
| Sunlight seems a bloodsmear night comes blood black | O |
| Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh | P |
| Thus their heads wear this hilarious hideous | Q |
| Awful falseness of set smiling corpses | R |
| Thus their hands are plucking at each other | J |
| Picking at the rope knouts of their scourging | S |
| Snatching after us who smote them brother | J |
| Pawing us who dealt them war and madness | Q |
Wilfred Owen
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