A Vision Of Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDCEDDE FGGFHDHIDDI EEEEDJDKLJM NOONEPEFPP QRRQSTSETTE DEEDDUDEUUE| The Genius of an hour that fading day | A |
| Resigned to wide haired Night's impending brow | B |
| Stole me apart I knew not where nor how | B |
| And from my sense ravished the world away | A |
| Rose in my view a visionary ground | C |
| A rugged plain beneath uncoloured skies | D |
| There slowly in the midst without a sound | C |
| Upheaved a motion as of birth I gazed | E |
| When lo a head with upcast empty eyes | D |
| And semblance of dead shoulders' majesties | D |
| Whose fleshless arms a marble breast upraised | E |
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| But even as this emerged nor yet was free | F |
| Behold it ripen into bloom and form | G |
| The shrunk limbs round and into colour warm | G |
| The hair spring new as leaves upon a tree | F |
| And curl like small flames round the forehead fair | H |
| At last the eyelids open wide it seems | D |
| A glorious statured youth that wakens there | H |
| Casting his eyes in wonder down to feel | I |
| This body that with clear blood newly teems | D |
| How perfect yet still heavy as from dreams | D |
| And over it the ancient beauty steal | I |
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| O lost in musing recollection sweet | E |
| What summoning cry thine age long slumber stirred | E |
| In that profound grave has thy cold ear heard | E |
| From heaven the mailed Archangel call whose feet | E |
| Stand planted in the stream of stars and whose | D |
| Time shattering trump hath pealed to the world's core | J |
| Yet still doth thy averted head refuse | D |
| To lift its eyes up still thy spread hands lean | K |
| On earth while pensive thou surveyest o'er | L |
| This radiant shape that all thy sorrows bore | J |
| Strong now as if no pain had ever been | M |
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| What thoughts begin to glide upon thy brain | N |
| And part thy lips with sighs Is it some fear | O |
| 'Mid flattering heavenly airs approaching near | O |
| This strange unproven peace to entertain | N |
| Musing O rebel flesh in my hard need | E |
| How often didst thou fail me I know well | P |
| How thou didst make me suffer toil and bleed | E |
| At once my prison and my enemy | F |
| Dear body I fear thee yet dark rages dwell | P |
| Within thee how shalt thou in peace excel | P |
| How learn to bear perfect felicity '' | - |
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| Nay rather that fond wonder in thy look | Q |
| Is wonder to have lost the thoughts that maim | R |
| The wounds of evilly invented shame | R |
| And fear that each sweet impulse overtook | Q |
| Now thou art free and all thy being whole | S |
| Perceivest in that peril haunted earth | T |
| The fair and primal gestures of thy soul | S |
| And knowest how all thy full completion fed | E |
| The urging hungers the sun sweetened mirth | T |
| Yea finding even in those furies worth | T |
| Which lacking hardly art thou perfected | E |
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| What trees are these whose dim young branches rise | D |
| Above thee Springing waters freshen sweet | E |
| New tender green for thee to pace and greet | E |
| The growing of the dawn of Paradise | D |
| Thou gazest round thee with a listening face | D |
| Hearkening perhaps to some far floating song | U |
| Unheard of men Ah go not ere thy grace | D |
| O glorified of me be throughly learned | E |
| But as I prayed in supplication strong | U |
| The vision faded and the world whose wrong | U |
| Mocks holy beauty and our desire returned | E |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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