The Bather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCAECFBGCHIAJJACK LKCAMMNOPNCLQRSC| Water frolic water | A |
| Drops in the dazzle of noon drops divinely cold | B |
| Radiant down naked breast down arm and thigh | C |
| You run to my feet shaken to shining grass | D |
| Betwixt the green blades liquid gems you lie | C |
| Water careless water | A |
| Little miraculous mirrors | E |
| Globing the glory of earth and sky | C |
| Lazy drops vanishing in the sun's hot kisses | F |
| Drops caressingly rolled | B |
| You glide and suddenly fall like a falling star | G |
| Like a throb of delight you die | C |
| The pool beneath me glows | H |
| In its own gloom asleep | I |
| Water secret water | A |
| But all its quivering sparkles a fairy mesh | J |
| Are showered about my sun delighted flesh | J |
| And I wonder at the beauty of water | A |
| Simple and swift and shy | C |
| A slumber and escape | K |
| Anywhither yielding | L |
| A never recovered shape | K |
| Laughter and loss in an instant's gleam to the eye | C |
| Water vivid water | A |
| I feel the cool drops run | M |
| Down me in the sun | M |
| And suddenly thrilling near | N |
| In the stillness of noon is a vision of water swung | O |
| In waves heavy and huge | P |
| Out of a chaos shaped into shapes of fear | N |
| Heedless of human cry | C |
| Drowning ruining endlessly crashed and returning | L |
| A power a terror O cold dancing drops | Q |
| Is it the kiss of a danger in delight | R |
| That makes you glow on the body of a man | S |
| And the heart of a man reply | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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