At Rheims Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON FPQP ROSO NKOK ODTU VWXW BYLY| Their hearts were burning in their breasts | A |
| Too hot for curse or cries | B |
| They stared upon the towers that burned | C |
| Before their smarting eyes | B |
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| There where since France began to be | D |
| Anointed kings knelt down | E |
| There where the Maid the unafraid | F |
| Received her vision's crown | E |
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| The senseless shell with nightmare scream | G |
| Burst and fair fragments fell | H |
| Torn from their centuries of peace | I |
| As by the rage of hell | H |
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| What help for wrath what use for wail | J |
| Before a dumb despair | K |
| All ancient high heroic France | L |
| Seemed burning bleeding there | K |
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| Within the pillars soar to gloom | M |
| Lit by the glimmering Rose | N |
| Spirits of beauty shrined in stone | O |
| Afar from mortal woes | N |
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| Hearing not though their haunted shade | F |
| Is stricken and all around | P |
| With splintering flash and brutal crash | Q |
| The ghostly aisles resound | P |
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| And there upon the pavement stretched | R |
| The German wounded groan | O |
| To see the dropping flames of death | S |
| And feel the shells their own | O |
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| Too fierce the fire Helped by their foes | N |
| They stagger out to air | K |
| The green grey coats are seen are known | O |
| Through all the crowded square | K |
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| Ah now for vengeance Deep the groan | O |
| A death knell Quietly | D |
| Soldiers unsling their rifles lift | T |
| And aim with steady eye | U |
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| But sudden in the hush between | V |
| Death and the doomed there stands | W |
| Against those levelled guns a priest | X |
| Gentle with outstretched hands | W |
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| Be not as guilty as they he cries | B |
| Each lets his weapon fall | Y |
| As if a vision showed him France | L |
| And vengeance vain and small | Y |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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