Preface Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBCB DEFGHIJ J| This book is not about heroes English Poetry is not yet fit to speak | A |
| of them Nor is it about deeds or lands nor anything about glory honour | B |
| dominion or power | B |
| except War | B |
| Above all this book is not concerned with Poetry | B |
| The subject of it is War and the pity of War | B |
| The Poetry is in the pity | B |
| Yet these elegies are not to this generation | C |
| This is in no sense consolatory | B |
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| They may be to the next | D |
| All the poet can do to day is to warn | E |
| That is why the true Poets must be truthful | F |
| If I thought the letter of this book would last | G |
| I might have used proper names but if the spirit of it survives Prussia | H |
| my ambition and those names will be content for they will have | I |
| achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders | J |
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| Note This Preface was found in an unfinished condition among Wilfred Owen's papers | J |
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