Illumination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIAJ CCKKLLMMBBNNOPQRIISS TTUUFFVVWW MMCCXXYYZZWWA2A2CTB2 B2C2C2WWD2D2VVE2E2CCIs it joy or is it peace | A |
Senses' magical release | A |
That triumphant swells my heart | B |
Where I walk the fields apart | B |
Miracle of morning new | C |
Meadows dabbled fresh in dew | C |
Straight stemmed woods that darkly still | D |
Stand upon the rounded hill | D |
Where the silver saplings gleam | E |
On the edges of a dream | E |
Mists that in faint fleeces blur | F |
All the frayed plumes of the fir | F |
And that whiten the fresh green | G |
Of the bosomed field between | G |
Melted ever more and more | H |
By the level beams that pour | H |
Sparkling through the sleepy rare | I |
Delicately coloured air | I |
Flowers that wake from peace to peace | A |
Subtle scented loneliness | J |
World that drenches through and through | C |
A stillness exquisite as dew | C |
Ploughman ploughing nigh at hand | K |
Along the open hazy land | K |
Calm as though a part of those | L |
Brown furrows over which he goes | L |
O what fount is it in me | M |
All this solitude sets free | M |
Far from miseries that dart | B |
Pangs of pity at the heart | B |
Far from prisoning tasks that hide | N |
The vision true of freedom wide | N |
Through a melting curtain clear | O |
The stir of spring I see and hear | P |
Softly the young beams surprise | Q |
My own spirit's mysteries | R |
And my still thought scarce aware | I |
Mingles into radiant air | I |
Now my eyes I cast around | S |
On an unsubstantial ground | S |
As I gaze I seem to grow | T |
Into Earth her longing know | T |
Feel the swelling of the bud | U |
Quicken warm within my blood | U |
And the grasses shooting higher | F |
Are a wave of my desire | F |
Deep and deeper sinks my mind | V |
To a charm intense resigned | V |
Deep into the grain of things | W |
Dissolved with its imaginings | W |
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Now the ploughman ploughs as he | M |
Furrowed lines of destiny | M |
Now the oak his shadow due | C |
Claims as if from earth it grew | C |
Not by casual beams of day | X |
Given and then stolen away | X |
I too from Time's ample womb | Y |
Summon my appointed doom | Y |
And conjure the hours to bring | Z |
Each its rapture each its sting | Z |
In a vista long appears | W |
The close peopled street of years | W |
There the hands that I shall clasp | A2 |
Are stretched out my own to grasp | A2 |
Ready in my heart the throe | C |
Burns for each awaiting woe | T |
Sorrow with her silent spade | B2 |
Graves for unborn hopes hath made | B2 |
Joy about me glides her arm | C2 |
Ignorant of grief and harm | C2 |
Like a child that only knows | W |
Where 'tis loved and thither goes | W |
Onward on the path begun | D2 |
I perceive my footsteps run | D2 |
Yet backward stretching all I find | V |
In the mirror of my mind | V |
In a hundred sleeps behold | E2 |
My own face becoming old | E2 |
And inaudibly drawn near | C |
Death has whispered in my ear | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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