The Deserted Palace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCABDA EFEFFEGH IJIKJILL MNJ| My feet are dead the cold rain beats my face '' | A |
| Courage sweet love this tempest is our friend '' | A |
| Yet oh shall we not rest a little space | B |
| This city sleeps some corner may defend | C |
| Our weary bodies till the storm amend '' | A |
| So tired dear heart Then we will seek some place | B |
| Safe from rude weather and this night air chill | D |
| And prying eyes of those that mean us ill '' | A |
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| These lovers fleeing through the midnight street | E |
| Breathlessly pause amid the gusty moan | F |
| Of winds that have not heard their echoing feet | E |
| Blind houses towering up leave light alone | F |
| From narrow skies in glimmering swiftness blown | F |
| In front from vales of darkness wild airs beat | E |
| Behind them shouldering crests of cloudy pine | G |
| Looms lost in heaven the cloven Apennine | H |
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| Down the strange street their doubtful steps explore | I |
| Each shadowy archway angle and recess | J |
| For shelter nor have travelled far before | I |
| Giselda half despaired for weariness | K |
| Feels on her fingers Raymond lightly press | J |
| Heavy above the surging wind's uproar | I |
| With a dull echo clanging now then drowned | L |
| Reverberates a sullen stormy sound | L |
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| What heart so fixed that darkness cannot shock | M |
| When the mind stumbles with the blind footfall | N |
| What world may not a random s | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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