Illumination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIAJ CCKKLLMMBBNNOPQRIISS TTUUFFVVWW MMCCXXYYZZWWA2A2CTB2 B2C2C2WWD2D2VVE2E2CC| Is 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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