The Arras Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC DDEE FFGG AHHII JJKK LLMM NNOO APPQQ RRSN NNTT| I | A |
| The early night falls on the plain | B |
| In cloud and desolating rain | B |
| I see no more but feel around | C |
| The ruined earth the wounded ground | C |
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| There in the dark on either side | D |
| The road are all the brave who died | D |
| I think not on the battles won | E |
| I think on those whose day is done | E |
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| Heaped mud blear pools old rusted wire | F |
| Cover their youth and young desire | F |
| Near me they sleep and they to me | G |
| Are dearer than their victory | G |
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| II | A |
| Where now are they who once had peace | H |
| Here and the fruitful tilth's increase | H |
| Shattered is all their hands had made | I |
| And the orchards where their children played | I |
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| But night that brings the darkness brings | J |
| The heart back to its dearest things | J |
| I feel old footsteps plodding slow | K |
| On ways that they were used to know | K |
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| And from my own land past the strait | L |
| From homes that no more news await | L |
| Absenting thoughts come hither flying | M |
| To the unknown earth where Love is lying | M |
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| There are no stars to night but who | N |
| Knows what far eyes of lovers true | N |
| In star like vigil each alone | O |
| Are watching now above their own | O |
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| III | A |
| England and France unconscious tryst | P |
| Keep in this void of shadowy mist | P |
| By phantom Vimy and mounds that tell | Q |
| Of ghostliness that was Gavrelle | Q |
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| The rain comes wildly down to drench | R |
| Disfeatured ridge deserted trench | R |
| Guns in the night far far away | S |
| Thud on the front beyond Cambrai | N |
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| But here the night is holy and here | N |
| I will remember and draw near | N |
| And for a space till night be sped | T |
| Be with the beauty of the dead | T |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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