Initiation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABAACA DEFGHAIJA JKJJLMJNM OLPLEQAJR SASATUAVU WBJBAFMAM XAXYAZA2AB2 VC2VC2D2E2ZJZ| The wind has fal'n asleep the bough that tost | A |
| Is quiet the warm sun's gone the wide light | A |
| Sinks and is almost lost | A |
| Yet the April day glows on within my mind | A |
| Happy as the white buds in the blue air | B |
| A thousand buds that shone on waves of wind | A |
| Now evening leads me wooingly apart | A |
| The young wood draws me down these shelving ways | C |
| Deeper as if it drew me to its heart | A |
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| What stills my spirit What awaits me here | D |
| So motionless the budded hazels spring | E |
| So shadowy and so near | F |
| My feet make not a sound upon this moss | G |
| Greenest gloom scented with cold primroses | H |
| A ripple shy as almost to be mute | A |
| Secretly wanders among further trees | I |
| Else the clear evening brims with loneliness | J |
| With stillness luminous and absolute | A |
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| The pause between sunsetting and moonrise | J |
| Exhales a strangeness It melts out in dream | K |
| The experience of the wise | J |
| This purity of sharpened sweet spring smells | J |
| Comes like a memory lost since I was born | L |
| My own heart changes into mystery | M |
| There is some presence nears through all these spells | J |
| Out of the darkened bosom of the earth | N |
| Not I the leaf but the leaf touches me | M |
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| Who seeks me What shy lover whose approach | O |
| Makes spiritual the white flowers on the thorn | L |
| Who seems to breathe up round me perfume strange | P |
| June and its bloom unborn | L |
| Shy as a virgin passion is the spring | E |
| I could have Time cease now so there should live | Q |
| This blossom in the stillness of my heart | A |
| Earth's earth yet immaterial as a sense | J |
| Enriched to understand love hope forgive | R |
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| Now now if ever could the spirit catch | S |
| Beyond the ear's range thrills of airy sound | A |
| I tremble as at the lifting of a latch | S |
| Am I not found | A |
| This magical clear moment in the dusk | T |
| Is like a crystal dewy brimming bowl | U |
| Imperilled upon lifting hands I dread | A |
| The breathing of the shadow that shall spill | V |
| This wonder and with it my very soul | U |
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| A dead bough cracks under my foot The charm | W |
| Breaks I am I now in a gloom aware | B |
| Of furtive flitting wing and hunted eyes | J |
| And furry feet a scare | B |
| Fear it is fear exiles us each apart | A |
| We are all bound and prisoned in our fear | F |
| From the dark shadow of our own selves we flee | M |
| Ah but that moment open eyed erect | A |
| I had stept out of all fear and was free | M |
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| How sweet it was in youth's shy giving time | X |
| Finding the sudden friend whose thoughts ran out | A |
| With yours in natural chime | X |
| Who knew before speech what the lips would tell | Y |
| No need to excuse to hide or to defend | A |
| From him in whom your dearest thought shone new | Z |
| And not a fancy stirred for him in vain | A2 |
| So was it as with a so perfect friend | A |
| In that rare moment I have lost again | B2 |
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| But lo a whiteness risen beyond the hill | V |
| The moon dawn A late bird sings somewhere hark | C2 |
| The long low loitering trill | V |
| Like water drops it falls into the dark | C2 |
| The earth sweetness holds me in its fragrant mesh | D2 |
| Oh though I know that I am bound afar | E2 |
| Yet where the grass is there I also grew | Z |
| Blood knows more than the brain Am I perhaps | J |
| Most true to earth when I seem most untrue | Z |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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