Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGFHIHI AJKJLLK AMNMNOOPPQRST UVWXYZA2ZHB2C2B2 WD2D2E2E2F2F2II G2ZG2ZYY H2I2BI2B2J2WK2DIWI| I | A |
| Lovely word flying like a bird across the narrow seas | B |
| When winter is over and songs are in the skies | C |
| Peace with the colour of the dawn upon the name of her | D |
| A music to the ears a wonder to the eyes | C |
| Peace bringing husband back to wife and son to mother soon | E |
| And lover to his love and friend to friend | F |
| Peace so long awaited and hardly yet believed in | G |
| The answer of faith enduring to the end | F |
| Tears are in our joy because the heavy night is gone from us | H |
| And morning brings the prisoner's release | I |
| How shall we sing her beauty and her blessedness | H |
| Saying at last to one another Peace | I |
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| II | A |
| Guns that boomed from shore to shore | J |
| And smote the heart with distant dread | K |
| Speak no more | J |
| The terror that bestrode the air | L |
| That under ocean kept his lair | L |
| Now is fled | K |
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| III | A |
| I see as on a misty morn | M |
| When a great ship towering glides | N |
| To anchor out of battle borne | M |
| And looms above her dinted sides | N |
| Burning through the mist at last | O |
| The sun flames on her splintered mast | O |
| And the torn flag that from it floats | P |
| And cheering from a thousand throats | P |
| Bursts from her splendour and her scars | Q |
| So I see our England come | R |
| Come at last from all her wars | S |
| Proudly home | T |
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| IV | - |
| Now let us praise the dead that are with us to day | U |
| Who fought and fell before the morning shone | V |
| Happy and brave an innumerable company | W |
| This day is theirs the day their deeds have won | X |
| Glory to them and from our hearts a thanksgiving | Y |
| In humbleness and awe and joy and pride | Z |
| We will not say that their place shall know no more of them | A2 |
| We will not say that they have passed and died | Z |
| They are the living they that bought this hour for us | H |
| And spilt their blood to make the world afresh | B2 |
| One with us one with our children and their heritage | C2 |
| They live and move a spirit in the flesh | B2 |
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| V | W |
| With innocence of flowers and grass and dew | D2 |
| Earth covers up her shame her wounds her rue | D2 |
| She pardons and remits she gives her grace | E2 |
| Where men had none and left so foul a trace | E2 |
| Peace of the earth peace of the sky begins | F2 |
| To sweeten and to cleanse our strifes and sins | F2 |
| The furious thunderings die away and cease | I |
| But what is won unless the soul win peace | I |
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| Not with folding of the hands | G2 |
| Not with evening fallen wide | Z |
| Over waste and weary lands | G2 |
| Peace is come but as a bride | Z |
| It is the trumpets of the dawn that ring | Y |
| It is the sunrise that is challenging | Y |
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| VII | - |
| Lovely word flying like a light across the happy Land | H2 |
| When the buds break and all the earth is changed | I2 |
| Bringing back the sailor from his watch upon the perilled seas | B |
| Rejoining shores long severed and estranged | I2 |
| Peace like the Spring that makes the torrent dance afresh | B2 |
| And bursts the bough with sap of beauty pent | J2 |
| Flower from our hearts into passionate recovery | W |
| Of all the mind lost in that banishment | K2 |
| Come to us mighty as a young and glad deliverer | D |
| From wrong's old canker and out dated lease | I |
| Then will we sing thee in thy triumph and thy majesty | W |
| Then from our throes shall be prepared our peace | I |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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