August Afternoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPEEOQ RBSATUV| Thump of a horse's hoof behind the hedge | A |
| Long stripes of shadow and green flame in the grass | B |
| Between them discrowned glaucous poppy pods | C |
| On their tall stalks a rose | D |
| With its great thorns blood red in the slant light | E |
| Round apples swelling on the apple boughs | F |
| Over these over the rich quiet comes | G |
| Out of no where a 'plane in the high blue | H |
| Driving its angry furrow across the sky | I |
| Outstrips the slow clouds throbs an urgent roar | J |
| Right overhead and fiercely vanishes | K |
| The quiet has become strange Like from pools | L |
| A noiseless water issuing memories | M |
| Surmises apprehensions traceless thoughts | N |
| Glide with brief visions on the mind drifting | O |
| From shadow into shadow and then a pang | P |
| Sudden as when a meteor scars the night | E |
| See where Christ's blood streams in the firmament | E |
| Dead faces of the young that see nothing | O |
| The unknown wounds everywhere everywhere | Q |
| And then from the inner to the outer sense | R |
| Returns the sun warm quiet on the grass | B |
| The poppy charged with sleep the red red thorns | S |
| The stamping of the horse behind the hedge | A |
| The strong slow patience of the living earth | T |
| And the apple ripening on the apple tree | U |
| Almost as if I felt it in my flesh | V |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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