Miners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGG HIHI JKLK MHMH GNGO PHQH GRGRGR| There was a whispering in my hearth | A |
| A sigh of the coal | B |
| Grown wistful of a former earth | C |
| It might recall | D |
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| I listened for a tale of leaves | E |
| And smothered ferns | F |
| Frond forests and the low sly lives | G |
| Before the fawns | G |
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| My fire might show steam phantoms simmer | H |
| From Time's old cauldron | I |
| Before the birds made nests in summer | H |
| Or men had children | I |
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| But the coals were murmuring of their mine | J |
| And moans down there | K |
| Of boys that slept wry sleep and men | L |
| Writhing for air | K |
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| And I saw white bones in the cinder shard | M |
| Bones without number | H |
| For many hearts with coal are charred | M |
| And few remember | H |
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| I thought of all that worked dark pits | G |
| Of war and died | N |
| Digging the rock where Death reputes | G |
| Peace lies indeed | O |
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| Comforted years will sit soft chaired | P |
| In rooms of amber | H |
| The years will stretch their hands well cheered | Q |
| By our lifes' ember | H |
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| The centuries will burn rich loads | G |
| With which we groaned | R |
| Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids | G |
| While songs are crooned | R |
| But they will not dream of us poor lads | G |
| Left in the ground | R |
Wilfred Owen
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