Strike Stone On Steel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI| Strike stone on steel | A |
| Fire replies | B |
| Strike men that feel | A |
| The answer is in their eyes | B |
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| Powers that are willed to break | C |
| The spirit in limbs of pain | D |
| See what spirit you wake | C |
| Strike and strike again | E |
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| You hammer sparks to a flame | F |
| And the flame scorches your hand | G |
| You have given the feeble an aim | F |
| You have made the sick to stand | G |
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| You shape by stroke on stroke | H |
| Man mightier than he knew | I |
| And the fire your hammer woke | H |
| Is a life that is death to you | I |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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