The Golden Gallery At Saint Paul's Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACDEDEFBFBGHGHI JIJKLKLMNMN| The Golden Gallery lifts its aery crown | A |
| O'er dome and pinnacle there I leaned and gazed | B |
| Is this indeed my own familiar town | A |
| This busy dream Beneath me spreading hazed | B |
| In distance large it lay nor nothing broke | C |
| Its mapped immensity Golden and iron brown | A |
| The stagnant smoke | C |
| Hung coiling above dense roofs and steeples dim | D |
| The river a serpent pale my wandering eye | E |
| Lightened but houses pressed to his silver brim | D |
| With charging clouds the sky | E |
| Broad shadows threw And now in a sudden shower | F |
| A veil sweeps toward me violent drops fall hard | B |
| Then softly the sun returns on chimney and tower | F |
| And the river flashes barred | B |
| With shadowy arches warm the wet roofs shine | G |
| And the city is stricken with light from clouds aglow | H |
| Uplifting in dazzling line | G |
| O'er valleys of ashy blue their wrinkled snow | H |
| I leaned and gazed but into my gazing eyes | I |
| Entered a sharp desire a strange distress | J |
| East I looked where the foreign masts arise | I |
| In rough sea breathing reaches of broad access | J |
| And North to the hills and South to the golden haze | K |
| But nowhere found satisfaction more | L |
| Beneath me the populous ways | K |
| Muttered but idly vast their troubled roar | L |
| Went up I heard no longer before me rose | M |
| Pale as at morning mist from autumn streams | N |
| The longing of men made visible helpless woes | M |
| Fountains of love wasted and trampled dreams | N |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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