In Hospital - Iii - Interior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCG HIJK LFCFThe gaunt brown walls | A |
Look infinite in their decent meanness | B |
There is nothing of home in the noisy kettle | C |
The fulsome fire | D |
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The atmosphere | E |
Suggests the trail of a ghostly druggist | F |
Dressings and lint on the long lean table | C |
Whom are they for | G |
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The patients yawn | H |
Or lie as in training for shroud and coffin | I |
A nurse in the corridor scolds and wrangles | J |
It's grim and strange | K |
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Far footfalls clank | L |
The bad burn waits with his head unbandaged | F |
My neighbour chokes in the clutch of chloral | C |
O a gruesome world | F |
William Ernest Henley
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