Angered Reason Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDD DEFD DDDD DGGD HDDH DIID DDDD JKKJ LMML DDDD NOON PQQP RDDS ADDA| Angered Reason walked with me | A |
| A street so squat unshapen bald | B |
| So blear windowed and grimy walled | B |
| So dismal doored it seemed to be | A |
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| The abortion of a mind that had | C |
| Nor wit nor will to make but left | D |
| Its impotence in image reft | D |
| Of even the means of seeming glad | D |
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| And there like never ripened fruit | D |
| Unsunned and starved were human lives | E |
| In joyless neighbour dreading hives | F |
| Of care with half their senses mute | D |
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| It pressed on me that patient street | D |
| It hurt me that it housed my kind | D |
| It was so abject and resigned | D |
| And so deformed I hated it | D |
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| The stars that flowered above grew bright | D |
| The evening filled with wondrous blue | G |
| The lampshine glistened in the dew | G |
| The gliding trams were ships of light | D |
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| And through my rebel heart there ran | H |
| The want of things not bought or sold | D |
| The spirit free to make and mould | D |
| The naked glory of a man | H |
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| And fevered I began to build | D |
| A city like the body worth | I |
| The natural happiness of earth | I |
| And with this folk its streets I filled | D |
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| No more from widest joy exiled | D |
| Nor helpless in a caging net | D |
| Suddenly by a lamp I met | D |
| A woman carrying her child | D |
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| I stopped the building of my dream | J |
| For there was all the future's book | K |
| Written in that enfolding look | K |
| And there the never ending theme | J |
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| And there the builder of the strong | L |
| City of men's desire but there | M |
| Also the shadow of the snare | M |
| And the corruption and the wrong | L |
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| Ah now I doubted of my thought | D |
| That could so easily perfect | D |
| Wishes in dream and raise the wrecked | D |
| And make all noble as it wrought | D |
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| Those mother's eyes absorbed unknown | N |
| Had made my vision wan and thin | O |
| There was a harder world to win | O |
| From flesh and blood than wood and stone | N |
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| O now of those life's prisoners none | P |
| Soiled soured or hardened but had speech | Q |
| To me of secret wonder each | Q |
| Was once so wonderful to one | P |
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| Yet she that bears the pang and hears | R |
| The first young cry and stills its want | D |
| And can with her vast hope enchant | D |
| The promise of betraying years | S |
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| Who should have beauty's best but she | A |
| To whom a son is given That street | D |
| Of life's denial and defeat | D |
| Stood in my mind accusing me | A |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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