On A Figure Of Justice With Bound Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJKGG LLMMNNOOHH| Unhappy goddess Has then envious earth | A |
| Denied thine eyes the radiance of thy birth | A |
| Have mortals that still need thy voice to school | B |
| Their wrangling lives their daily feuds to rule | B |
| That thou might'st judge with stern and equal mind | C |
| Swayed by no fear or favour made thee blind | C |
| Immortal yet with bound and vacant eye | D |
| How sad an emblem of humanity | E |
| Thou bearest the poised scales the uplifted sword | F |
| Dealing to each his sentence and award | F |
| Infinite acts in tedious array | G |
| Their petty quarrels at thy feet they lay | G |
| Thou hearest and dost thou require no more | H |
| No subtler knowledge no profounder lore | H |
| Hast thou searched out the individual heart | I |
| Or deem'st thou each its fellow's counterpart | I |
| Ah what wronged mind might not those eyes have read | J |
| With light and with compassion visited | K |
| Let the soiled page of obscure lots unroll | G |
| Nor from deeds judged but from the striving soul | G |
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| Teased by such strife and yet 'mid all its din | L |
| Conscious and proud of heavenly rays within | L |
| Know'st thou no hour when thy long labours seem | M |
| Fruitless as foolish a preposterous dream | M |
| When some imperious impulse bids thee scorn | N |
| The bonds of use no longer to be borne | N |
| And with indignant tears at tasks so vain | O |
| Dash down thy scales and snap thy sword in twain | O |
| Leave man to end his wrongs from his own store | H |
| Of wisdom and revisit earth no more | H |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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