Adversaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIFFJJKL MMNNFFOPQQRRSSTT UUBBVVWAAXXYYNNZZA2A 2B2B2WWWWWWBBC2C2 WWD2D2E2E2F2F2FFWWWho are these that meet | A |
At random in the street | A |
Adversaries Yet they | B |
Make no sign nor stay | B |
Neither he nor she | C |
Knows what those Powers be | C |
That bodied in them go | D |
Among the peopled flow | D |
One toward the dusk and one | E |
Toward the Western sun | E |
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Secret eyes turn to her | F |
And bosoms throb astir | F |
As if a perfume blew | G |
And made the evening new | G |
Lissom with budding breast | H |
She steps toward the bright West | H |
An airy footed shape | I |
Above the neck's young nape | I |
Springs wonderful her hair | F |
The round throat lifts in air | F |
The flower that is her head | J |
Her lips are Peril's red | J |
Her eyes a shy surprise | K |
Shedding soft cruelties | L |
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Of what will was she wrought | M |
Vivid without a thought | M |
Fragrance of all that's young | N |
And delicately sprung | N |
Is round her like a lure | F |
Voluptuously pure | F |
Eternal soul of sense | O |
The moment's quintessence | P |
Of what will was she made | Q |
With those fine lashes laid | Q |
Upon her bloom She comes | R |
From the wild Earth that hums | R |
With summer in the mead | S |
Glutting the flower cups' greed | S |
Of sunlight ill to tame | T |
As Hunger Thirst or Flame | T |
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But he that's striding East | U |
Regards not her the least | U |
His thought is far away | B |
Circling the end of day | B |
Though young the restless mind | V |
Moulding the flesh has signed | V |
His features and his gaze | W |
Absented in retreat | A |
From all this human street | A |
Holds musings that begin | X |
To sharpen cheek and chin | X |
What speculation now | Y |
Beneath that ardent brow | Y |
Braves what it sees Among | N |
Blind worlds this planet swung | N |
Like an old toy a spark | Z |
In the gigantic dark | Z |
A mote of dust alive | A2 |
Where millions meanly strive | A2 |
For what If Thought alone | B2 |
Keeps man upon his throne | B2 |
Of courage to outface | W |
The Gorgon mask of Space | W |
What wills it with this house | W |
Of flesh that loves to drowse | W |
And take the hours of sense | W |
For sweetness and defence | W |
Of flesh that is but clay | B |
For Thought to sift away | B |
Like powder of idle sand | C2 |
Within the crumbling hand | C2 |
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Two Cruelties are these | W |
And two Defiances | W |
Yet though they be apart | D2 |
As East and West the heart | D2 |
Of man is twined in each | E2 |
Of them he makes his speech | E2 |
His torment and delight | F2 |
His songs his tears his height | F2 |
Of wisdom his despair | F |
Though both his being tear | F |
He knows not which to choose | W |
Nor which he'd harder lose | W |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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