Chateau Gaillard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHGHG IJIJI KLMLM NONON PHPHP EQEQE| Shattered tower and desolated keep | A |
| Darken far below the river shines | B |
| Under cliffs that round the twilight sweep | A |
| Rock rough headlands on the sky's confines | B |
| Couch asleep | A |
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| Silence breathes the air colours dewy smell | C |
| Freshens keener from the grass a hush | D |
| Deepens on some distant evening bell | C |
| Burning out of heaven the solemn flush | D |
| Spins a spell | C |
| - | |
| Sharpens every shadowy edge of stone | E |
| Notches gaps abrupt drains pale the light | F |
| Blackens gulfs of fosse where mounds enthrone | E |
| What were towers The ruin to soft night | F |
| Looms alone | E |
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| Lo it lives Now like a terrible thought | G |
| Seems it A man's strength how frail beside | H |
| Yonder strength Could hands of flesh have wrought | G |
| Such a thing Mere ashes they that cried | H |
| They that fought | G |
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| Where the little poppy spots with red | I |
| Crumbling bastions dust of centuries all | J |
| Those strong feet that over heaps of dead | I |
| Leapt and hands that furious clutched the wall | J |
| Breasts that bled | I |
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| Yet a presence yet a power is here | K |
| In the darkening silence slowly felt | L |
| Silence that is naked and is near | M |
| Into cloud those battle rages melt | L |
| But a fear | M |
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| Strikes from where these pressing stones conspire | N |
| Toward a purpose past the strength of each | O |
| As a man's deeds knit by one desire | N |
| As a great verse out of casual speech | O |
| Forged in fire | N |
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| Stones no longer having filled their place | P |
| Nay though tumbled torn and cast aside | H |
| Touched with glory Time cannot deface | P |
| In such wreck Man scarred and glorified | H |
| Builds his race | P |
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| Lion Heart thou buildest not in vain | E |
| Lion Heart that in our own blood still | Q |
| Beatest rent but royal over Seine | E |
| This the embattled proud child of thy will | Q |
| Shall remain | E |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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