The Distant Guns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDEBBCFBBGBHBAAB B| Negligently the cart track descends into the valley | A |
| The drench of the rain has passed and the clover breathes | B |
| Scents are abroad in the valley a mist whitens | B |
| Along the hidden river where the evening smiles | B |
| The trees are asleep their shadows are longer and longer | C |
| Melting blue in the tender twilight above | D |
| In a pallor barred with lilac and ashen cloud | E |
| Delicate as a spirit the young moon brightens | B |
| And distant a bell intones the hour of peace | B |
| Where roofs of the village gray and red cluster | C |
| In leafy dimness Peace old as the world | F |
| The crickets shrilling in the high wet grass | B |
| And gnats clouding upon the frail wild roses | B |
| Murmur of you but hark like a shudder upon the air | G |
| Ominous and alien knocking on the farther hills | B |
| As with airy hammers the ghosts of terrible sound | H |
| Guns From afar they are knocking on human hearts | B |
| Everywhere over the silent evening country | A |
| Knocking with fear and dark presentiment Only | A |
| The moon's beauty where no life nor joy is | B |
| Brightening softly and knowing nothing has peace | B |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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