How Dark, How Quiet Sleeps The Vale Below Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFEGAAG HIIHJKKJ LMNLOPPQ RSSRTUUT| How dark how quiet sleeps the vale below | A |
| In the dim farms look not a window shines | B |
| Distantly heard among the lonely pines | B |
| How soft the languid autumn breezes flow | A |
| Past me and kiss my hair and cheek and mouth | C |
| Half veiled is the calm sky | D |
| Jupiter's kingly eye | D |
| Alone glows full in the unclouded South | C |
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| Alas and can sweet Night avail to heal | E |
| Not one of the world's wounds Must I even here | F |
| Still listen with the mind's too wakeful ear | F |
| To that sad sound which in my flesh I feel | E |
| Sound of unresting unrejoicing feet | G |
| With feverish steps or slow | A |
| For ever to and fro | A |
| Pacing the gay thronged friendless stony street | G |
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| Nature is free but Man the eternal slave | H |
| Of care and passion Must I deem that true | I |
| With fields and quiet have we nought to do | I |
| Because our spirits for ever crave and crave | H |
| And never found their satisfaction yet | J |
| World is thy heart so cold | K |
| So deeply weary and old | K |
| That thy sole business is but to forget | J |
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| No no these perfect trees with whispering voice | L |
| These flowers that have to thee a solace been | M |
| And yet an alien solace so serene | N |
| They live and in their life seem to rejoice | L |
| Life how unlike to thine These flowers these trees | O |
| Are children of one birth | P |
| With thee O Man as Earth | P |
| Earth still so fair for all thy ravages | Q |
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| Is sister to yon radiant Jupiter | R |
| Who with such glorious and untroubled gaze | S |
| Upon his own course burning down Heaven's ways | S |
| Across deep seas of darkness looks at her | R |
| Perchance in his vast bosom he too keeps | T |
| Like ferment like distress | U |
| Yet tranquil shines not less | U |
| Lord of the night that round his splendour sleeps | T |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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