Ezekiel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE F GHI AIAJK LMJIL NLOPL QKKKR| Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones | A |
| Heard the word of the Lord commanding him | B |
| Prophesy to these bones that they may live ' | C |
| There was a noise and a shaking and bone to bone | D |
| Clove together and sinew and flesh came on them | E |
| - | |
| Yet there was no breath in them The Lord commanded | F |
| Prophesy Son of Man to the four winds ' | - |
| And the winds came from the corners of the earth | G |
| Breathing upon those dead and clothed in flesh | H |
| Was a great army standing upon their feet | I |
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| I dreamed I stood in a valley of dry bones | A |
| But what were these derelict rusty mounded | I |
| Clutter and offal of man's invention dry bones | A |
| Cast aside by hurrying civilization | J |
| Yesterday's triumph that To day despises | K |
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| With a noise of hissing they were coming together | L |
| Fire breathed on them and metal clove to metal | M |
| Timed and measured each to its intricate function | J |
| Minute or monstrous all in the brain engendered | I |
| Convolutions multiplied over and over | L |
| - | |
| Panting and humming forms combined to a meaning | N |
| Usurping the sky supplanting the sweet verdure | L |
| Forms from the blinding furnace issuing huge | O |
| Giantry of metal dwarfing man to a pigmy | P |
| Sounding clamouring throbbing in speed and power | L |
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| Proud we gaze on all we have mastered captive | Q |
| Force and willed conformity stamped exactness | K |
| But O divine diversity of creatures | K |
| Where are you Not here amid man's contrivings | K |
| None can repeat you none complete nor annul you | R |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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