Malham Cove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFDBEGBEBBEHIJB BI JKJLMKBLCBENANBBEEBB JE EOPEGOAEAQGDEDRBQGSE QCS EBBBBBJBEAAEJEGATUEE E CBEEBBBETVJEAEAVCWEV BW EXCEBXTEJYEEEELYZA2B EBA2 BBGB2C2BGD2JEE2NENBE JF2G2NH2F2 GAEBAANBEDTI2EI2EDGE EDGE TJ2GBTJ2K2BBBEEBEABB CGEAC GJBEAJBE L2JEBEGL2EQEL2E EEM2N2CEBN2O2ETEEEBE WF2CEEF2There is threat in the wind and a murmur | A |
of water that swells | B |
Swift in the hollow about me | C |
a shadow is thrown | D |
For above is no valley sequestered | E |
in shy green dells | B |
But abrupt sky closing a wall | F |
and a vastness of stone | D |
Did the rock split asunder with ages | B |
or suddenly smote | E |
The hand of a God on the mountain | G |
for under the face | B |
Of the imminent height at the humid | E |
and cold rock base | B |
From out of the dungeoned recesses | B |
the cavernous throat | E |
Disimprisoned there bursts not a rill | H |
not a trickle of spray | I |
But broad in its gushing and full | J |
and sweeping apace | B |
A river arisen that dances | B |
in laughter away | I |
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Builded aloof unscaleable | J |
towering stark | K |
To the fugitive cloud and the blue | J |
O Soul of the Rock | L |
Silent remote as the moon | M |
that will'st not to hark | K |
To the cry of the lamb on the precipice | B |
lost from the flock | L |
If thou suffer the pine in thy cranny | C |
that dizzily clings | B |
Small seen as a fern or a thicket | E |
of obstinate thorn | N |
'Tis disdain that neglects them O rather | A |
a scorning of scorn | N |
Unheedful of them as of those | B |
irresistible springs | B |
Gushing out from beneath thee unheard | E |
as the cry of the bird | E |
That skims from the shadow and hovers | B |
a flashing of wings | B |
Mid the flush and the greening of April | J |
thou standest unstirred | E |
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As a desert uplifted a desert | E |
where bones rot and bleach | O |
As a barrenness knowing not change | P |
nor date nor event | E |
As a strength without speech without motion | G |
yet stronger than speech | O |
A bulk without feature a winter | A |
of force long spent | E |
And neither is hope nor terror | A |
nor weakness there | Q |
But a pressure and weight of oblivion | G |
where no man is known | D |
Nor feature from feature distinguished | E |
but all overthrown | D |
page | R |
Like the rampart of Time that confronts us | B |
enormous and bare | Q |
Immuring the dream and the vision | G |
whereby we have breath | S |
Like Night and the end of the light | E |
to them that despair | Q |
I stand in thy shadow and fear thee | C |
thou greatness of Death | S |
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Come away come away There is light | E |
in the water that glides | B |
Come away with the water that hastes | B |
from the heart of the hills | B |
A sinuous ripple that sings | B |
and that nowhere abides | B |
But broken a murmuring sparkle | J |
on ledges and sills | B |
Of the rock as it swerves carries in it | E |
a wavering fire | A |
Like a thought like a joy that no barrier | A |
stays from its flight | E |
Or a dance of young children that carol | J |
their heart of delight | E |
For it calls to the bud to burst open | G |
the blade to thrust higher | A |
To my heart to my heart it is calling | T |
O follow for here | U |
Is thine own spirit quick and enamoured | E |
of love and of light | E |
O follow my swiftness and stay not | E |
in shadows of fear '' | - |
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On beds in the valley on sunny | C |
half islanded banks | B |
Where roots are athirst and refreshed | E |
and saplings grow bold | E |
Bowing their youth to the breezes | B |
in quivering ranks | B |
Primroses a cluster of softness | B |
and fragrance unfold | E |
And the fairy anemone shaking | T |
her blossoms agleam | V |
They are kisses of light as they tremble | J |
to touch and to part | E |
Is flushed ah how faint as with fire | A |
from the innermost heart | E |
Of a world in whose veins is a laughter | A |
as clear as the stream | V |
And the music upholds me enchants me | C |
and borne like a wave | W |
I am melted I flow I am nought | E |
but a hope and a dream | V |
And in me is the youth of the flowers | B |
and grief in her grave | W |
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Sudden a gust flings a shadow | E |
and shivering the black | X |
Driven leaves at the roots of the oak tree | C |
are whirled up and lost | E |
Like the wild thoughts of fear into darkness | B |
and strong boughs crack | X |
And a gloom rushes down with a wailing | T |
and out of it tossed | E |
Pale snow is outshaken and hail | J |
drops icily keen | Y |
On young leaf and dead and awakened | E |
in tree tops aloud | E |
Is the roar of the storm that has gathered | E |
the hills in a shroud | E |
Until naught of the towering rock | L |
but in glimmers is seen | Y |
A vision unfeatured a phantom | Z |
of terrible birth | A2 |
Is it thou that appearest a presence | B |
divined in the cloud | E |
Thy ribs and thy knees and thy breasts | B |
O Titaness Earth | A2 |
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Is it thine the great voice that confuses | B |
the winds and the floods | B |
In a meaningless cry as of madmen | G |
a blindness of wrath | B2 |
Smiting the bosses of oak | C2 |
and the virginal buds | B |
Negligent where thou hast beaten | G |
thy desolate swath | D2 |
O thou who hast armed as for battle | J |
thy creatures wild | E |
With fierceness of claw and of fang | E2 |
of hoof and of horn | N |
From thee even thee from thy heart beat | E |
was man too born | N |
With flesh like a flower defenceless | B |
is he thy child | E |
In whose eyes are wonder and trouble | J |
who strikes yet the wrong | F2 |
He has done he turns from again | G2 |
and with sorrow is torn | N |
How shall his heart be as thine | H2 |
or in thy way strong | F2 |
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For who that is born of a woman | G |
has known not the hour | A |
When the spirit within him is daunted | E |
and this world comes | B |
As an army against him a terror | A |
of alien power | A |
And fate too vast to be borne | N |
his courage benumbs | B |
Lost he seems as a child | E |
upon mountains alone | D |
Who has longed not then with longing | T |
for a strength past pain | I2 |
To endure the rending of sorrow | E |
that makes hope vain | I2 |
To be kneaded in iron and stubborned | E |
in armour of stone | D |
That hour when the heavens are shaken | G |
within the mind | E |
And the world is an enemy armed | E |
have I not known | D |
For the strength of the stony mountain | G |
have I not pined | E |
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But lo on a sudden with sighing | T |
the storm ends now | J2 |
In a radiant relenting golden | G |
the light reappears | B |
With a glory of drops that are dancing | T |
on leaf and on bough | J2 |
And a music a wandering music | K2 |
returns to my ears | B |
From the primrose is breathing a freshness | B |
and wild shy smells | B |
From the moss where the snowflake is melted | E |
to dazzling dew | E |
And the voice of the birds on the banks | B |
is uplifted anew | E |
To the carolling voice of the river | A |
that onward swells | B |
Onward away where the buds | B |
gleam white on the tree | C |
The rain and the gloom are forgotten | G |
in heaven's young blue | E |
And my heart flows out with the river | A |
the river with me | C |
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In a trance in a trance I listen | G |
and into my soul | J |
As it draws far back to a stillness | B |
darkly stored | E |
With infinite sound gather | A |
and gradual roll | J |
The voices of all the torrents | B |
on earth outpoured | E |
We tarry not rest not sleep not '' | - |
aloud they cry | L2 |
We are swift as the hours that crumble | J |
thy strength into dust | E |
We build thee no home nor a fortress | B |
wherein to trust | E |
But in us is the sound of dominion | G |
falling from high | L2 |
And the kings of the world dethroned | E |
and towers laid bare | Q |
We move we are ever beyond | E |
we change we die | L2 |
We laugh we live to follow | E |
wilt thou too dare '' | - |
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How shall I not go with you | E |
O waters swift | E |
Too long in yesterday's self | M2 |
I tarry and keep | N2 |
The dust of the world about me | C |
Uplift uplift | E |
Lose me a wave in the waves | B |
that laugh and leap | N2 |
Lo into uttermost time | O2 |
my thoughts I send | E |
And because in my heart is a flowing | T |
no hour can bind | E |
Because through the wrongs of the world | E |
looking forth and behind | E |
I find for my thought not a close | B |
for my soul not an end | E |
With you will I follow nor crave | W |
the strength of the strong | F2 |
Nor a fortress of time to enshield me | C |
from storms that rend | E |
This is life this is home to be poured | E |
as a stream as a song | F2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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