As I Walked Through London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEDFEGGHBIBEHF| As I walked through London | A |
| The fresh wound burning in my breast | B |
| As I walked through London | A |
| Longing to have forgotten to harden my heart and to rest | B |
| A sudden consolation a softening light | C |
| Touched me the streets alive and bright | C |
| With hundreds each way thronging on their tide | D |
| Received me a drop in the stream unmarked unknown | E |
| And to my heart I cried | D |
| Here can thy trouble find shelter thy wound be eased | F |
| For see not thou alone | E |
| But thousands each with his smart | G |
| Deep hidden perchance but felt in the core of the heart | G |
| And as to a sick man's feverish veins | H |
| The full sponge warmly pressed | B |
| Relieves with its burning the burning of forehead and hands | I |
| So I to my aching breast | B |
| Gathered the griefs of those thousands and made them my own | E |
| My bitterest pains | H |
| Merged in a tenderer sorrow assuaged and appeased | F |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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