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 W2X2W2X2

Destiny drives a crooked ploughA
And sows a careless seedB
Now through a heart she cuts and nowA
She helps a helpless needB
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To night from London's roaring seaC
She brings a girl and boyD
For two hearts used to miseryC
Opens a door of joyD
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Wandering from hateful homes they cameE
Till by this fate they meetF
Then out of ashes springs a flameE
Suddenly life is sweetF
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Together where the city endsG
And looks on Thames's streamH
That under Surrey willows bendsG
And floats into a dreamH
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Softly in one another's earI
They murmur childish speechJ
Love that is deeper and more dearK
For words it cannot reachJ
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Above them the June night is stillL
Only with sighs half heardM
Dark leaves above them flutter and thrillL
As with their longing stirredM
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And by the old brick wall belowN
Rustling the river glidesO
Like their full hearts that deeply glowN
Is the swell of his full tidesO
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To the farther shore the girl's pale browA
Turns with desiring eyesP
Annie what is it you're wishing now ''-
She lifts her head and sighsP
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Willie how peaceful 'tis and softQ
Across the water SeeC
The trees are sleeping and stars aloftR
Beckon to you and meC
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I think it must be good to walkS
In the fields and have no careT
With trees and not with men to talkS
O Willie take me there ''-
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Now hand in hand up to the NightU
They gaze and she looks downV
With large mild eyes of grave delightU
The mother they have not knownW
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Older than sorrow she appearsX
Yet than themselves more youngY
She understood their childish tearsZ
Knew how their love was sprungY
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The simple perfume of the grassA2
Comes to them like a callB2
Obeying in a dream they passA2
Along the old brick wallB2
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By flickering lamp and shadowy doorC2
Across the muddy creekD2
Warm with their joy to the heart's coreC2
With joy afraid to speakD2
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At last the open road they gainE2
And by the Bridge that loomsF2
With giant arch and sloping chainE2
Over the river's gloomsF2
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They pause above the northern skiesF2
Are pale with a furnace lightU
London with upcast sleepless eyesF2
Possesses the brief nightU
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The wind flaps in the lamp and harkG2
A noise of wheels that comeH2
At drowsy pace along the darkG2
A waggon lumbers homeI2
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Slow footed with a weary easeF2
The patient horses stepJ2
The rein relaxed upon his kneesF2
The waggoner nods asleepK2
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Annie it goes the country wayL2
'Tis meant for me and youM2
It goes to fields and trees and hayL2
Come it shall take us too ''-
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He lifts her in his arms as pastN2
The great wheels groaning rideO2
And on the straw he sets her fastN2
And lightly climbs besideO2
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The waggoner nods his drowsy headP2
He hears no sound awhileQ2
Softly they listen in sweet dreadP2
Then to each other smileQ2
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Odours of dimly flowering JuneR2
The starry stillness deepK2
Possess their wondering spirits soonR2
Like children tired they sleepK2
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The waggon creaks the horses plodS2
By hedges clearer seenT2
Down the familiar dusty roadU2
And past a village greenT2
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The morning star shines in the pondV2
A cock crows loud and brightU
The dawn springs in the sky beyondV2
The birds applaud the lightU
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But on into the summer mornW2
Beneath the gazing EastX2
The sleepers move serenely borneW2
The world for them has ceasedX2

Robert Laurence Binyon



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