Oxford In War-time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DADA EFEF GAGA HIHI JKJK LMFN OPOP QGQR STST UVUV WUWU| What alters you familiar lawn and tower | A |
| Arched alley and garden green to the gray wall | B |
| With crumbling crevice and the old wine red flower | A |
| Solitary in summer sun for all | B |
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| Is like a dream I tread on dreams No stir | A |
| Of footsteps voices laughter Even the chime | C |
| Of many memoried bells is lonelier | A |
| In this neglected ghostliness of Time | C |
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| What stealing touch of separation numb | D |
| Absents you Yet my heart springs up to adore | A |
| The shrining of your soul that is become | D |
| Nearer and oh far dearer than before | A |
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| It is as if I looked on the still face | E |
| Of a Mother musing where she sits alone | F |
| She is with her sons she is not in this place | E |
| She is gone out into far lands unknown | F |
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| Because that filled horizon occupies | G |
| Her heart with mute prayer and divining fear | A |
| Therefore her hands so calm lie and her eyes | G |
| See nothing and men wonder at her here | A |
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| But far in France on the torn Flanders plain | H |
| By Sinai in the Macedonian snows | I |
| The fly plagued sands of Tigris heat and rain | H |
| On wandering water where the black squall blows | I |
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| Less danger than the bright wave ambushes | J |
| She bears it out All the long day she bears | K |
| And the sudden hour of instant challenges | J |
| To act that searches all men no man spares | K |
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| She is with her sons leaving a virtue gone | L |
| Out of her sacred places what she bred | M |
| Lives other life than this that sits alone | F |
| Though still in dream starrily visited | N |
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| For O in youth she lives not in her age | O |
| Her soul is with the springtime and the young | P |
| And she absents her from the learned page | O |
| Studious of high histories yet unsung | P |
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| More passionately prized than wisdom's book | Q |
| Because her own Her faith is in those eyes | G |
| That clear into the gape of hell can look | Q |
| Putting to proof ancient philosophies | R |
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| Such as the virgin Muses would rehearse | S |
| Beside the silvery swallow haunted stream | T |
| Under the gray towers But immortal verse | S |
| Is now exchanged for its immortal theme | T |
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| Victory proud loss and the enduring mind | U |
| Youth that has passed all praises and has won | V |
| More than renown being that which faith divined | U |
| Reality more radiant than the sun | V |
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| She gave she gives more than all anchored days | W |
| Of dedicated lore of storied art | U |
| And she resigns her beauty to men's gaze | W |
| To mask the riches of her bleeding heart | U |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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