The Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM NONO AP P QCRC STS UVUW XYZY A2B2A2B2 C2D2C2D2 E2F2E2F2 F2UF2U G2H2G2I2 F2J2F2K2 L2M2L2 N2O2N2O2 P2Q2P2Q2 R2K2R2K2 S2T2U2T2 V2UV2U W2X2W2X2Destiny drives a crooked plough | A |
And sows a careless seed | B |
Now through a heart she cuts and now | A |
She helps a helpless need | B |
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To night from London's roaring sea | C |
She brings a girl and boy | D |
For two hearts used to misery | C |
Opens a door of joy | D |
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Wandering from hateful homes they came | E |
Till by this fate they meet | F |
Then out of ashes springs a flame | E |
Suddenly life is sweet | F |
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Together where the city ends | G |
And looks on Thames's stream | H |
That under Surrey willows bends | G |
And floats into a dream | H |
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Softly in one another's ear | I |
They murmur childish speech | J |
Love that is deeper and more dear | K |
For words it cannot reach | J |
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Above them the June night is still | L |
Only with sighs half heard | M |
Dark leaves above them flutter and thrill | L |
As with their longing stirred | M |
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And by the old brick wall below | N |
Rustling the river glides | O |
Like their full hearts that deeply glow | N |
Is the swell of his full tides | O |
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To the farther shore the girl's pale brow | A |
Turns with desiring eyes | P |
Annie what is it you're wishing now '' | - |
She lifts her head and sighs | P |
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Willie how peaceful 'tis and soft | Q |
Across the water See | C |
The trees are sleeping and stars aloft | R |
Beckon to you and me | C |
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I think it must be good to walk | S |
In the fields and have no care | T |
With trees and not with men to talk | S |
O Willie take me there '' | - |
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Now hand in hand up to the Night | U |
They gaze and she looks down | V |
With large mild eyes of grave delight | U |
The mother they have not known | W |
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Older than sorrow she appears | X |
Yet than themselves more young | Y |
She understood their childish tears | Z |
Knew how their love was sprung | Y |
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The simple perfume of the grass | A2 |
Comes to them like a call | B2 |
Obeying in a dream they pass | A2 |
Along the old brick wall | B2 |
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By flickering lamp and shadowy door | C2 |
Across the muddy creek | D2 |
Warm with their joy to the heart's core | C2 |
With joy afraid to speak | D2 |
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At last the open road they gain | E2 |
And by the Bridge that looms | F2 |
With giant arch and sloping chain | E2 |
Over the river's glooms | F2 |
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They pause above the northern skies | F2 |
Are pale with a furnace light | U |
London with upcast sleepless eyes | F2 |
Possesses the brief night | U |
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The wind flaps in the lamp and hark | G2 |
A noise of wheels that come | H2 |
At drowsy pace along the dark | G2 |
A waggon lumbers home | I2 |
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Slow footed with a weary ease | F2 |
The patient horses step | J2 |
The rein relaxed upon his knees | F2 |
The waggoner nods asleep | K2 |
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Annie it goes the country way | L2 |
'Tis meant for me and you | M2 |
It goes to fields and trees and hay | L2 |
Come it shall take us too '' | - |
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He lifts her in his arms as past | N2 |
The great wheels groaning ride | O2 |
And on the straw he sets her fast | N2 |
And lightly climbs beside | O2 |
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The waggoner nods his drowsy head | P2 |
He hears no sound awhile | Q2 |
Softly they listen in sweet dread | P2 |
Then to each other smile | Q2 |
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Odours of dimly flowering June | R2 |
The starry stillness deep | K2 |
Possess their wondering spirits soon | R2 |
Like children tired they sleep | K2 |
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The waggon creaks the horses plod | S2 |
By hedges clearer seen | T2 |
Down the familiar dusty road | U2 |
And past a village green | T2 |
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The morning star shines in the pond | V2 |
A cock crows loud and bright | U |
The dawn springs in the sky beyond | V2 |
The birds applaud the light | U |
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But on into the summer morn | W2 |
Beneath the gazing East | X2 |
The sleepers move serenely borne | W2 |
The world for them has ceased | X2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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