The Bowl Of Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEEFEDGGHDIJJIKL MMNOPLLQLKKRMKK| She is eight years old | A |
| When she laughs her eyes laugh | B |
| Light dances in her eyes | C |
| She tosses back her long hair | D |
| And with a song replies | C |
| Then on light feet she darts away | E |
| Tripping mischievously gay | E |
| But now into this room of shadow | F |
| Coming slowly with the sun's long ray | E |
| And all the morning on her simple hair | D |
| O how serious eyed | G |
| She steps pre occupied | G |
| Holding a bowl of water | H |
| Poised in her fingers' care | D |
| Water quivering with cool gleams | I |
| And wavering and a roll | J |
| Within the clear glass bowl | J |
| That brimmed and luminous seems | I |
| A wonder and a shining secrecy | K |
| As if it were the world's most precious thing | L |
| So open clear that all have passed it by | M |
| Cut stalks of iris lie | M |
| On the bare table flowers and swelling buds | N |
| Clasped in close curves up to the purple tips | O |
| That shall to morrow burst | P |
| And shoot a splendid wing | L |
| When they have drawn into their veins the spring | L |
| Which those young hands with the drops bright on them | Q |
| So all intently bring | L |
| Costless felicity | K |
| Living and unbought | K |
| And over me O flowers | R |
| That neither ask nor sigh | M |
| Comes the thought | K |
| How all this world is wanting and athirst | K |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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