Orphans Of Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK LMLM| Where is the land that fathered nourished poured | A |
| The sap of a strong race into your veins | B |
| Land of wide tilth of farms and granaries stored | A |
| Of old towers chiming over peaceful plains | B |
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| It is become a vision barred away | C |
| Like light in cloud a memory and belief | D |
| On those lost plains the Glory of yesterday | C |
| Builds her dark towers for the bells of Grief | D |
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| It is become a splendour circled name | E |
| For all the world a torch against the skies | F |
| Burns on that blood spot the unpardoned shame | E |
| Of them that conquered but your homeless eyes | F |
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| See rather some brown pond by a white wall | G |
| Red cattle crowding in the rutty lane | H |
| A garden where the hollyhocks were tall | G |
| In the Augusts that shall never be again | I |
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| There your thoughts cling as the long thrusting root | J |
| Clings in the ground your orphaned hearts are there | K |
| O mates of sunburnt earth your love is mute | J |
| But strong like thirst and deeper than despair | K |
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| You have endured what pity can but grope | L |
| To feel into that darkness enters none | M |
| We have but hands to help yours is the hope | L |
| Whose courage rises silent with the sun | M |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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