Mid Atlantic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEDEFFGGAFA HHIIIIJIJCCIKKLMMNNN L| If this were all A dream of dread | A |
| Ran through me I watched the waves that fled | A |
| Pale crested out of hollows black | B |
| The hungry lift of helpless waves | C |
| A million million tossing graves | C |
| A wilderness without a track | B |
| Beneath the barren moon | D |
| If this were all | E |
| The stars of night remotely strewn | D |
| Looked on that restless heave and fall | E |
| I seemed with them to watch this old | F |
| Bright planet through the ages rolled | F |
| Self tortured burning splendours vain | G |
| And fevered with its greeds insane | G |
| And with the blood of peoples red | A |
| I watched it grown an ember cold | F |
| Join in the dancing of the dead | A |
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| The chilly half moon sank the sound | H |
| Of naked surges roared around | H |
| And through my heart the darkness poured | I |
| Surges as of a sea unshored | I |
| O somewhere far and lost from light | I |
| Blind Europe battled in the night | I |
| Then sudden through the darkness came | J |
| The vision of a child | I |
| A child with feet as light as flame | J |
| Who ran across the bitter waves | C |
| Across the tumbling of the graves | C |
| With arms stretched out he smiled | I |
| I drank the wine of life again | K |
| I breathed among my brother men | K |
| I felt the human fire | L |
| I knew that I must serve the will | M |
| Of beauty and love and wisdom still | M |
| Though all my hopes were overthrown | N |
| Though universes turned to stone | N |
| I have my being in this alone | N |
| And die in that desire | L |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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