The Convict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP| By the warm road side where chestnut and thorn | A |
| The brightness shaded supine at ease | B |
| A felon freed that morn | A |
| Lay idle and wondered gazing up through the trees | B |
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| O strange no more to be one of a band | C |
| Numbered and known to lose the measure | D |
| Of day divided and planned | C |
| To think for the morrow to choose work or pleasure | D |
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| His ear the jostling roar of the street | E |
| Amazed he felt the crowd like a load | F |
| And welcomed refuge sweet | E |
| Deserted suburb and silent shady road | F |
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| For now with his hands habitual stones | G |
| Of the pavement he touched close to the wall | H |
| He nestled and felt to his bones | G |
| The warmth and the shadow cool on his forehead fall | H |
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| And catching a leaf from the chestnut strayed | I |
| He held it glowing green in the light | J |
| Transparent with veins inlaid | I |
| And thrust the world and its vastness away from sight | J |
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| Children from school as they passed him eyed | K |
| His shorn temples and whispering turned | L |
| To mock him he on his side | K |
| Abstracted his limbs disposed to a slumber earned | L |
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| A grave citizen homeward bound | M |
| Perceived him as negligent still he lay | N |
| And swerved askance and frowned | M |
| And crossed to the opposite pavement and went his way | N |
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| But warming him shone the indifferent noon | O |
| And chestnut and thorn on his sleeping head | P |
| In the careless glory of June | O |
| Scattered their delicate blossom of white and red | P |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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