The Unreturning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CBBC DEBDEB| Suddenly 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| And while I wondered on their being withdrawn | D |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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