The Field Of Glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCD EEFGHBIB JJKKBDBD LLMMNONO PPQQRSTS BBUUVWVW| War shook the land where Levi dwelt | A |
| And fired the dismal wrath he felt | A |
| That such a doom was ever wrought | B |
| As his to toil while others fought | B |
| To toil to dream and still to dream | C |
| With one day barren as another | D |
| To consummate as it would seem | C |
| The dry despair of his old mother | D |
| - | |
| Far off one afternoon began | E |
| The sound of man destroying man | E |
| And Levi sick with nameless rage | F |
| Condemned again his heritage | G |
| And sighed for scars that might have come | H |
| And would if once he could have sundered | B |
| Those harsh inhering claims of home | I |
| That held him while he cursed and wondered | B |
| - | |
| Another day and then there came | J |
| Rough bloody ribald hungry lame | J |
| But yet themselves to Levi's door | K |
| Two remnants of the day before | K |
| They laughed at him and what he sought | B |
| They jeered him and his painful acre | D |
| But Levi knew that they had fought | B |
| And left their manners to their Maker | D |
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| That night for the grim widow's ears | L |
| With hopes that hid themselves in fears | L |
| He told of arms and fiery deeds | M |
| Whereat one leaps the while he reads | M |
| And said he'd be no more a clown | N |
| While others drew the breath of battle | O |
| The mother looked him up and down | N |
| And laughed a scant laugh with a rattle | O |
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| She told him what she found to tell | P |
| And Levi listened and heard well | P |
| Some admonitions of a voice | Q |
| That left him no cause to rejoice | Q |
| He sought a friend and found the stars | R |
| And prayed aloud that they should aid him | S |
| But they said not a word of wars | T |
| Or of a reason why God made him | S |
| - | |
| And who's of this or that estate | B |
| We do not wholly calculate | B |
| When baffling shades that shift and cling | U |
| Are not without their glimmering | U |
| When even Levi tired of faith | V |
| Beloved of none forgot by many | W |
| Dismissed as an inferior wraith | V |
| Reborn may be as great as any | W |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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