In The British Museum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ JKJK LJLJ MNMN OPOQ| Shafts of light that poured from the August sun | A |
| Glowed on long red walls of the gallery cool | B |
| Fell upon monstrous visions of ages gone | C |
| Still smiling Sphinx winged and bearded Bull | D |
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| With burnished breast of ebon marble queen | E |
| And king regarded full from a tranquil brain | F |
| Enthroned together conquered Time serene | E |
| In spite of wisdom and older than ancient pain | F |
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| Hither a poor woman with sad eyes came | G |
| And vacantly looked around The faces vast | H |
| Their strange motionless features touched with flame | G |
| Awed her in humble wonder she hurried past | H |
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| And shyly beneath a sombre monument sought | I |
| Obscurity into the darkest shade she crept | J |
| And rested soon diverted awhile her thought | I |
| Returned to its own trouble At last she slept | J |
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| Not long sweet sleep alone her spirit possest | J |
| A dream seized her a solemn and strange dream | K |
| For far from home in an unknown land opprest | J |
| By burning sun in the noon's terrible beam | K |
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| She wandered around her out of the plain arose | L |
| Immense Forms that high above her stared | J |
| Calm they seemed and used to human woes | L |
| Silent they heard her sorrow with ears prepared | J |
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| Now like a bird flitting with anxious wings | M |
| Imprisoned within some vast cathedral's aisles | N |
| Hither and thither she flutters to each she brings | M |
| Her prayer and is answered only with grave smiles | N |
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| Indescribably troubled Crush me '' she cries | O |
| Speak speak or crush me '' The lips are dumb | P |
| She woke no longer in shadow the sun on her eyes | O |
| And sighed and arose and returned to her empty home | Q |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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