Fetching The Wounded Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDAAAAEEFFGGHH AAIICCJJKKLLMMAA NNAAOOPPKQAARRSSTTUU VVWSXXAAYYAAAAAARRAA YYAAYYZZRR

At the road's end glimmer the station lightsA
How small beneath the immense hollow of Night'sA
Lonely and living silence Air that racedB
And tingled on the eyelids as we facedB
The long road stretched between the poplars flyingC
To the dark behind us shuddering and sighingC
With phantom foliage lapses into hushD
Magical supersession The loud rushD
Swims into quiet midnight reassumesA
Its solitude there's nothing but great gloomsA
Blurred stars whispering gusts the hum of wiresA
And swerving leftwards upon noiseless tiresA
We glide over the grass that smells of dewE
A wave of wonder bathes my body throughE
For there in the headlamps' gloom surrounded beamF
Tall flowers spring before us like a dreamF
Each luminous little green leaf intimateG
And motionless distinct and delicateG
With powdery white bloom fresh upon the stemH
As if that clear beam had created themH
Out of the darkness Never so intenseA
I felt the pang of beauty's innocenceA
Earthly and yet unearthly A sudden callI
We leap to ground and I forget it allI
Each hurries on his errand lanterns swingC
Dark shapes cross and re cross the rails we bringC
Stretchers and pile and number them and heapJ
The blankets ready Then we wait and keepJ
A listening ear Nothing comes yet all's stillK
Only soft gusts upon the wires blow shrillK
Fitfully with a gentle spot of rainL
Then ere one knows it the long gradual trainL
Creeps quietly in and slowly stops No soundM
But a few voices' interchange AroundM
Is the immense night stillness the expanseA
Of faint stars over all the wounds of FranceA
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Now stale odour of blood mingles with keenN
Pure smell of grass and dew Now lantern sheenN
Falls on brown faces opening patient eyesA
And lips of gentle answers where each liesA
Supine upon his stretcher black of beardO
Or with young cheeks on caps and tunics smearedO
And stained white bandages round foot or headP
Or arm discoloured here and there with redP
Sons of all corners of wide France from LilleK
Douay the land beneath the invader's heelQ
Champagne Touraine the fisher villagesA
Of Brittany the valleyed PyreneesA
Blue coasts of the South old Paris streets ArgonneR
Of ever smouldering battle that anonR
Leaps furious brothered them in arms They fellS
In the trenched forest scarred with reeking shellS
Now strange the sound comes round them in the nightT
Of English voices By the wavering lightT
Quickly we have borne them one by one to the airU
And sweating in the dark lift up with careU
Tense sinewed each to his place The cars at lastV
Complete their burden slowly and then fastV
We glide away And the dim round of skyW
Infinite and silent broods unseeinglyS
Over the shadowy uplands rolling blackX
Into far woods and the long road we trackX
Bordered with apparitions as we passA
Of trembling poplars and lamp whitened grassA
A brief procession flitting like a thoughtY
Through a brain drowsing into slumber noughtY
But we awake in the solitude immenseA
But hurting the vague dumbness of my senseA
Are fancies wandering the night there stealsA
Into my heart like something that one feelsA
In darkness the still presence of far homesA
Lost in deep country and in little roomsA
The vacant bed I touch the world of painR
That is so silent Then I see againR
Only those infinitely patient facesA
In the lantern beam beneath the night's vast spacesA
Amid the shadows and the scented dewY
And those illumined flowers springing anewY
In freshness like a smile of secrecyA
From the gloom buried earth return to meA
The village sleeps blank walls and windows barredY
But lights are moving in the hushed courtyardY
As we glide up to the open door The ChiefZ
Gives every man his order prompt and briefZ
We carry up our wounded one by oneR
The first cock crows the morrow is begunR

Robert Laurence Binyon



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