The Healers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED FGHG AIHI JKLK GMNM JOPO LQJQ JRAR| In a vision of the night I saw them | A |
| In the battles of the night | B |
| 'Mid the roar and the reeling shadows of blood | C |
| They were moving like light | B |
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| Light of the reason guarded | C |
| Tense within the will | D |
| As a lantern under a tossing of boughs | E |
| Burns steady and still | D |
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| With scrutiny calm and with fingers | F |
| Patient as swift | G |
| They bind up the hurts and the pain writhen | H |
| Bodies uplift | G |
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| Untired and defenceless around them | A |
| With shrieks in its breath | I |
| Bursts stark from the terrible horizon | H |
| Impersonal death | I |
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| But they take not their courage from anger | J |
| That blinds the hot being | K |
| They take not their pity from weakness | L |
| Tender yet seeing | K |
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| Feeling yet nerved to the uttermost | G |
| Keen like steel | M |
| Yet the wounds of the mind they are stricken with | N |
| Who shall heal | M |
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| They endure to have eyes of the watcher | J |
| In hell and not swerve | O |
| For an hour from the faith that they follow | P |
| The light that they serve | O |
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| Man true to man to his kindness | L |
| That overflows all | Q |
| To his spirit erect in the thunder | J |
| When all his forts fall | Q |
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| This light in the tiger mad welter | J |
| They serve and they save | R |
| What song shall be worthy to sing of them | A |
| Braver than the brave | R |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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