Illumination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIAJ CCKKLLMMBBNNOPQRIISS TTUUFFVVWW MMCCXXYYZZWWA2A2CTB2 B2C2C2WWD2D2VVE2E2CC

Is it joy or is it peaceA
Senses' magical releaseA
That triumphant swells my heartB
Where I walk the fields apartB
Miracle of morning newC
Meadows dabbled fresh in dewC
Straight stemmed woods that darkly stillD
Stand upon the rounded hillD
Where the silver saplings gleamE
On the edges of a dreamE
Mists that in faint fleeces blurF
All the frayed plumes of the firF
And that whiten the fresh greenG
Of the bosomed field betweenG
Melted ever more and moreH
By the level beams that pourH
Sparkling through the sleepy rareI
Delicately coloured airI
Flowers that wake from peace to peaceA
Subtle scented lonelinessJ
World that drenches through and throughC
A stillness exquisite as dewC
Ploughman ploughing nigh at handK
Along the open hazy landK
Calm as though a part of thoseL
Brown furrows over which he goesL
O what fount is it in meM
All this solitude sets freeM
Far from miseries that dartB
Pangs of pity at the heartB
Far from prisoning tasks that hideN
The vision true of freedom wideN
Through a melting curtain clearO
The stir of spring I see and hearP
Softly the young beams surpriseQ
My own spirit's mysteriesR
And my still thought scarce awareI
Mingles into radiant airI
Now my eyes I cast aroundS
On an unsubstantial groundS
As I gaze I seem to growT
Into Earth her longing knowT
Feel the swelling of the budU
Quicken warm within my bloodU
And the grasses shooting higherF
Are a wave of my desireF
Deep and deeper sinks my mindV
To a charm intense resignedV
Deep into the grain of thingsW
Dissolved with its imaginingsW
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Now the ploughman ploughs as heM
Furrowed lines of destinyM
Now the oak his shadow dueC
Claims as if from earth it grewC
Not by casual beams of dayX
Given and then stolen awayX
I too from Time's ample wombY
Summon my appointed doomY
And conjure the hours to bringZ
Each its rapture each its stingZ
In a vista long appearsW
The close peopled street of yearsW
There the hands that I shall claspA2
Are stretched out my own to graspA2
Ready in my heart the throeC
Burns for each awaiting woeT
Sorrow with her silent spadeB2
Graves for unborn hopes hath madeB2
Joy about me glides her armC2
Ignorant of grief and harmC2
Like a child that only knowsW
Where 'tis loved and thither goesW
Onward on the path begunD2
I perceive my footsteps runD2
Yet backward stretching all I findV
In the mirror of my mindV
In a hundred sleeps beholdE2
My own face becoming oldE2
And inaudibly drawn nearC
Death has whispered in my earC

Robert Laurence Binyon



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