One Year Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEED FGFGHHCIJC KLMLNNONNO CPCPQQRSSR TPTPNNPUUP| Is it we that are wise is it we | A |
| Who have bought with a price of grief | B |
| A wisdom seldom free | A |
| From scorn or disbelief | B |
| Who find this world fulfil | C |
| An end that is not our will | C |
| Who toil with the light in our eyes | D |
| Showing us scarce begun | E |
| The things we meant to have done | E |
| Is it we is it we that are wise | D |
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| Or O is it you is it you | F |
| That have yet no language of ours | G |
| But whose eyes are a laughter blue | F |
| As of light slipping under the showers | G |
| Whose carol sweeter than words | H |
| Trills clear as an April bird's | H |
| Or a dancing brook on the hill | C |
| Blithe springs of a confidence | I |
| That bubbles we know not whence | J |
| And has no knowledge of ill | C |
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| Lo our desires have gone | K |
| Like ships to a future far | L |
| And vanished in mist alone | M |
| By no befriending star | L |
| But all to you is a wonder | N |
| Fresh as the sky whereunder | N |
| Life moves to pledge delight | O |
| You need no hope to bear | N |
| The day through the day's care | N |
| Your joys are all in sight | O |
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| You want not a word to tell | C |
| What lies beyond our guess | P |
| And springs like a sparkling well | C |
| In a lovely speechlessness | P |
| And we that have shaped with art | Q |
| Language of mind and of mart | Q |
| We have never yet found speech | R |
| For the heart's blood deepest stirred | S |
| Something is flown with a word | S |
| Or is buried beneath our reach | R |
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| Our speech is spun from the pain | T |
| Of thought and heavy with years | P |
| And dyed with an ancient stain | T |
| From passion and blood and tears | P |
| But O I vow when I hear | N |
| Your wordless carol clear | N |
| I would cast this speech that endures | P |
| As a sorry old patchwork coat | U |
| Could I but re fill my throat | U |
| With the liquid joy in yours | P |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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