An Incident At Cambrai Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDBE FGBG HIJI KLML CNBN OIPI| In a by street blocked with rubble | A |
| And any way tumbled stones | B |
| Between the upstanding house fronts' | B |
| Naked and scorched bones | B |
| - | |
| Chinese workmen were clearing | C |
| The ruins dusty and arid | D |
| Dust whitened the motley coats | B |
| Where each his burden carried | E |
| - | |
| Silent they glided all | F |
| Save one who passed me by | G |
| With berry brown high boned cheeks | B |
| And strange Eastern eye | G |
| - | |
| And he sang in his outland tongue | H |
| Among those ruins drear | I |
| A high sad half choked ditty | J |
| That no one heeded to hear | I |
| - | |
| Was it love was it grief that made | K |
| For long dead lips that song | L |
| The desolation of Han | M |
| Or the Never Ending Wrong | L |
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| The Rising Sun and the Setting | C |
| They have seen this all as a scroll | N |
| Blood smeared that the endless years | B |
| For the fame of men unroll | N |
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| It was come from the ends of the earth | O |
| And of Time in his ruin gray | I |
| That song the one human sound | P |
| In the silence of Cambrai | I |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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