In Hospital - V - Operation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IIJI DHKL MNOP KMDQ| You are carried in a basket | A |
| Like a carcase from the shambles | B |
| To the theatre a cockpit | C |
| Where they stretch you on a table | D |
| - | |
| Then they bid you close your eyelids | E |
| And they mask you with a napkin | F |
| And the anaesthetic reaches | G |
| Hot and subtle through your being | H |
| - | |
| And you gasp and reel and shudder | I |
| In a rushing swaying rapture | I |
| While the voices at your elbow | J |
| Fade receding fainter farther | I |
| - | |
| Lights about you shower and tumble | D |
| And your blood seems crystallising | H |
| Edged and vibrant yet within you | K |
| Racked and hurried back and forward | L |
| - | |
| Then the lights grow fast and furious | M |
| And you hear a noise of waters | N |
| And you wrestle blind and dizzy | O |
| In an agony of effort | P |
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| Till a sudden lull accepts you | K |
| And you sound an utter darkness | M |
| And awaken with a struggle | D |
| On a hushed attentive audience | Q |
William Ernest Henley
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