The Cause Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NMNMOO PIPIQQ RSRSII| Out of these throes that search and sear | A |
| What is it so deep arises in us | B |
| Above the shaken thoughts of fear | A |
| Whatever thread the Fates may spin us | B |
| Above the horror that would drown | C |
| And tempest that would strike us down | C |
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| It is to stand in cleansing light | D |
| The cloud of dullard habit lifted | E |
| To use a certainty of sight | D |
| And breathe an air by peril sifted | F |
| The things that once we deemed of price | G |
| Consumed in smoke of sacrifice | G |
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| It is to feel the world we knew | H |
| Changed to a wonder past our knowing | I |
| The grass the trees the skiey blue | H |
| The very stones are inly glowing | I |
| With something infinite behind | J |
| These shadows ardently divined | J |
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| We went our ways each bosom bore | K |
| Its spark of separate desire | L |
| But each now kindles to the core | K |
| With faith from this transfusing fire | L |
| Whereto our inmost longings run | M |
| To be made infinitely one | M |
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| With that which nothing can destroy | N |
| Which lives when all is crushed and taken | M |
| The home of dearer than our joy | N |
| By all save by the soul forsaken | M |
| The soul that strips her clean of care | O |
| Because she breathes her native air | O |
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| Yet not in scorn of lovely earth | P |
| And human sweetness born of living | I |
| For these are grown of dearer worth | P |
| A gift more precious in the giving | I |
| Since through this raiment's hues and lines | Q |
| The glory of the spirit shines | Q |
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| Faces of radiant youth that go | R |
| Like rivers singing to the sea | S |
| You count no careful cost you know | R |
| Of that far secret you are free | S |
| And life in you its splendour spending | I |
| Sings the stars' song that has no ending | I |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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