The Unreturning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CBBC DEBDEBSuddenly night crushed out the day and hurled | A |
Her remnants over cloud peaks thunder walled | B |
Then fell a stillness such as harks appalled | B |
When far gone dead return upon the world | A |
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There watched I for the Dead but no ghost woke | C |
Each one whom Life exiled I named and called | B |
But they were all too far or dumbed or thralled | B |
And never one fared back to me or spoke | C |
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Then peered the indefinite unshapen dawn | D |
With vacant gloaming sad as half lit minds | E |
The weak limned hour when sick men's sighs are drained | B |
And while I wondered on their being withdrawn | D |
Gagged by the smothering Wing which none unbinds | E |
I dreaded even a heaven with doors so chained | B |
Wilfred Owen
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