Goblins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFDFGF HIJKLK MNONPN HFQFNF RNSNTN NFFFEF DUHUMU HVFVWV DFFFMF ENCNFN XYNYNY MPNEFPEP| The night is holy and haunted | A |
| Asleep in a vale of June | B |
| Stillness and earth smell mingle | C |
| With the beams' unearthly boon | B |
| Yet a terror is fallen upon me | D |
| From the other side of the moon | B |
| - | |
| If it be Truth that's hidden | E |
| Upon that other side | F |
| Unseen unguessed of any | D |
| Waiting to be descried | F |
| Without shadow or footstep | G |
| Goblins by me glide | F |
| - | |
| The mellow moon entrancing | H |
| An English meadow here | I |
| Silvers the old farm roofs below | J |
| And dewy grasses near | K |
| But the world her far side faces | L |
| I think of it and fear | K |
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| If not man's ancient terror | M |
| Bribed with long sacrifice | N |
| If not old ignorance whose hope | O |
| Would truth to itself entice | N |
| If reason be the goblin | P |
| That thrills my blood to ice | N |
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| The bean blossom is breathing | H |
| From fields in glimmer spread | F |
| A rose hangs black on the amber air | Q |
| But I am lured and led | F |
| To an outer vast apartness | N |
| Beyond man's hope or dread | F |
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| I look down upon me and mine | R |
| As with translated eyes | N |
| My struggle in rapture and anguish | S |
| But noted like a fly's | N |
| My world at stake my heaven and hell | T |
| Small as a beetle's prize | N |
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| Busy in deep sea dungeons | N |
| Great mouths of fishes blind | F |
| Blind wheel of planet on planet | F |
| In gulfs no thought can find | F |
| The proud black stare of a falcon | E |
| Without a thought behind | F |
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| Possess me dispossess me | D |
| They mock me not they are | U |
| The worlds are all a web that's hung | H |
| Beyond conception far | U |
| That a gorged and hairy spider | M |
| Spins in the central star | U |
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| Ferocity of begetting | H |
| Prowling hunger's maw | V |
| Fury of teeth and hot spilt blood | F |
| Cold pounce and tearing claw | V |
| Laughterless lust the swarm and spawn | W |
| That one another gnaw | V |
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| A race to death a frenzy | D |
| Rushing into the night | F |
| A rage of life a riot | F |
| Seen in a moment's light | F |
| And Death the wild pursuer | M |
| Close on that fever flight | F |
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| I see it all in vision | E |
| I see with murdered sense | N |
| Of neither good nor evil | C |
| Nor make a fool's pretence | N |
| I share I too that hunted | F |
| And horrible innocence | N |
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| Cruelty's matched with courage | X |
| Not that a power should thrive | Y |
| Which twists its poison tendrils | N |
| In all that is alive | Y |
| Nor that with those fell doings | N |
| My fate be to connive | Y |
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| Not this the ulterior terror | M |
| That has the goblin grin | P |
| But that the ignorant stare of space | N |
| Be the end as the origin | E |
| This glorious palace of the mind | F |
| A cave that tumbles in | P |
| And reason mocked by reason | E |
| Be all the goal to win | P |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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