Red Lips Are Not So Red Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBA CCBBBC CCBBBC CCDDDC| Red lips are not so red | A |
| As the stained stones kissed by the English dead | A |
| Kindness of wooed and wooer | B |
| Seems shame to their love pure | B |
| O Love your eyes lose lure | B |
| When I behold eyes blinded in my stead | A |
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| Your slender attitude | C |
| Trembles not exquisite like limbs knife skewed | C |
| Rolling and rolling there | B |
| Where God seems not to care | B |
| Till the fierce Love they bear | B |
| Cramps them in death's extreme decrepitude | C |
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| Your voice sings not so soft | C |
| Though even as wind murmuring through raftered loft | C |
| Your dear voice is not dear | B |
| Gentle and evening clear | B |
| As theirs whom none now hear | B |
| Now earth has stopped their piteous mouths that coughed | C |
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| Heart you were never hot | C |
| Nor large nor full like hearts made great with shot | C |
| And though your hand be pale | D |
| Paler are all which trail | D |
| Your cross through flame and hail | D |
| Weep you may weep for you may touch them not | C |
Wilfred Owen
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