Inheritance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EBFB GGHI JCKC LMNM OPQP ARSTU VWWW WXYX ZWA2W B2C2D2C2 VWE2W WF2CF2 WWG2W WH2IH2 AI2CJ2C K2L2M2L2 YWN2W WO2E2O2 E2P2WC2 Q2E2WE2 R2BS2B T2YEY| I | A |
| To a bare blue hill | B |
| Wings an old thought roaming | C |
| At a random touch | D |
| Of memory homing | C |
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| The first of England | E |
| These eyes to fill | B |
| Was the lifted head | F |
| Of that proud hill | B |
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| As lion fronted | G |
| Alone it warded | G |
| The vale and the far | H |
| Bright West regarded | I |
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| Who knows what wells | J |
| Are a child's unthinking | C |
| Eyes What skies | K |
| Thro' the clear of them sinking | C |
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| Have for ever coloured | L |
| A mind that springs | M |
| From buried hope dumb prayer | N |
| Prized small things | M |
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| Precious to dust that once | O |
| Throbbed in hearts now | P |
| Crumbled where ignorant | Q |
| Passes the plough | P |
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| II | A |
| I have walked by streams | R |
| In shadowy places | S |
| Where wild rose June | T |
| With the moon embraces | U |
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| And smelt the magic | V |
| Of dew drenched herbs | W |
| In a hush that trances | W |
| Delights disturbs | W |
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| I have roamed in a frail mist's | W |
| Filtered gold | X |
| The Downs so cleanly | Y |
| And smooth and old | X |
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| I know how the shower light | Z |
| Touches gray spires | W |
| In the slumbrous bosom | A2 |
| Of the elmy shires | W |
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| And lying on warm thyme | B2 |
| Watched at the sheer | C2 |
| Black cliff the grand wave | D2 |
| Lunge and rear | C2 |
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| When the whole Atlantic | V |
| Amassed recoils | W |
| And in indolent thunder | E2 |
| Bursts and boils | W |
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| I have followed the Romans' | W |
| Wall that wound | F2 |
| Over lone moors leaving | C |
| The Druid mound | F2 |
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| In the secret hills | W |
| Where the lost race lies | W |
| Dreaming the dream | G2 |
| That the world denies | W |
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| A dream that the voices | W |
| Of England have sung | H2 |
| That is born in the blood | I |
| And the eyes of the young | H2 |
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| III | A |
| O English earth | I2 |
| 'Mid the blown seas lying | C |
| Green green | J2 |
| When the birds come flying | C |
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| Out of the empty south | K2 |
| To the old willow | L2 |
| Ash thorn chestnut | M2 |
| Boughs that they know | L2 |
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| Sweet sweet sweet to be | Y |
| Back in May bowers | W |
| When the grass grows tall | N2 |
| Round the English flowers | W |
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| O the light on tost clouds | W |
| As you take to your breast | O2 |
| Your stormy lover | E2 |
| The strong South West | O2 |
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| That breathes a wild whisper | E2 |
| In youth's thrilled ear | P2 |
| Of strange things of far things | W |
| Of glory and fear | C2 |
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| But the things that are dearest | Q2 |
| You have told them never | E2 |
| They are deep in our veins | W |
| For ever and ever | E2 |
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| They come over the mind | R2 |
| When the world's noise is still | B |
| As to me comes the vision | S2 |
| Of one blue hill | B |
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| Beautiful dark | T2 |
| And solitary | Y |
| The first of England | E |
| That spoke to me | Y |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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