The Destroyer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| He stands on high in the torch glare | A |
| With planted feet with lifted axe | B |
| Behind a gulf of crimsoned air | A |
| Beneath the old wall that gapes and cracks | B |
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| Tossed fragments crash to dust and smoke | C |
| Exulting life aloft he stands | D |
| And drives his unrepentant stroke | C |
| Nor heeds the havoc of his hands | D |
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| Below one lingers gazing Why | E |
| Within his heart does secret joy | F |
| Quivering awaken and reply | E |
| To each home blow Destroy destroy | F |
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| Lulled in the casual feast of sense | G |
| Awed by the ages' fortress walls | H |
| Out of its slumber roused intense | G |
| To the swung axe a demon calls | H |
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| Man's Demon never satiate | I |
| That finds nought made to its desire | J |
| How shall it to this world be mate | I |
| To a world of stone a heart of fire | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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