The Builders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCDDCDEFGGEHHIIJ KJLLFKJ| Staggering slowly and swaying | A |
| Heavily at each slow foot's lift and drag | B |
| With tense eyes careless of the roar and throng | C |
| That under jut and jag | C |
| Of half built wall and scaffold stream along | C |
| Six bowed men straining strong | C |
| Bear hardly lifted a huge lintel stone | D |
| This ignorant thing and prone | D |
| Mere dumbness blindly weighing | C |
| A brute piece of blank death a bone | D |
| Of the stark mountain helpless and inert | E |
| Yet draws each sinew till the hot veins swell | F |
| And sweat drops upon hand and forehead start | G |
| Till with short pants the suffering heart | G |
| Throbs to the throat where fiercely hurt | E |
| Crushed shoulders cannot heave till thought and sense | H |
| Are nerved and narrowed to one aim intense | H |
| One effort scarce to be supported longer | I |
| What tyrant will in man or God were stronger | I |
| To summon thrall and seize | J |
| The exaction of life's uttermost resource | K |
| That from the down weighed breast and aching knees | J |
| To arms lifted in pain | L |
| And hands that grapple and strain | L |
| Upsurges thrusting desperate to repel | F |
| The pressure and the force | K |
| Of this which neither feels nor hears nor sees | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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