O World Of Many Worlds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LLLL EMEM NLNL OPOP QRRR| O World of many worlds O life of lives | A |
| What centre hast thou Where am I | B |
| O whither is it thy fierce onrush drives | C |
| Fight I or drift or stand or fly | B |
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| The loud machinery spins points work in touch | D |
| Wheels whirl in systems zone in zone | E |
| Myself having sometime moved with such | D |
| Would strike a centre of mine own | E |
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| Lend hand O Fate for I am down am lost | F |
| Fainting by violence of the Dance | G |
| Ah thanks I stand the floor is crossed | F |
| And I am where but few advance | G |
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| I see men far below me where they swarm | H |
| Haply above me be it so | I |
| Does space to compass points conform | H |
| And can we say a star stands high or low | I |
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| Not more complex the millions of the stars | J |
| Than are the hearts of mortal brothers | K |
| As far remote as Neptune from small Mars | J |
| Is one man's nature from another's | K |
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| But all hold course unalterably fixed | L |
| They follow destinies foreplanned | L |
| I envy not these lives in their faith unmixed | L |
| I would not step with such a band | L |
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| To be a meteor fast eccentric lone | E |
| Lawless in passage through all spheres | M |
| Warning the earth of wider ways unknown | E |
| And rousing men with heavenly fears | M |
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| This is the track reserved for my endeavour | N |
| Spanless the erring way I wend | L |
| Blackness of darkness is my meed for ever | N |
| And barren plunging without end | L |
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| O glorious fear Those other wandering souls | O |
| High burning through that outer bourne | P |
| Are lights unto themselves Fair aureoles | O |
| Self radiated these are worn | P |
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| And when in after times those stars return | Q |
| And strike once more earth's horizon | R |
| They gather many satellites astern | R |
| For they are greater than this system's Sun | R |
Wilfred Owen
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