The Heather Branch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEACE FGGHHFGGGGIJJKIKLHL MGNOGOPQPGGQNRRGGSGG SHGGTHH AUAAVVUGGGGGGWWJJ| Out of the pale night air | A |
| From wandering lone in the warm scented wood | B |
| The sighing shadowy bright solitude | C |
| Of leafy glade and the rough upland bare | A |
| To thee I come a branch | D |
| Of heather in my hand the sprays yet keep | E |
| Drops of the dewy moonshine trembling there | A |
| And my heart filled full of a happy mood | C |
| To thee that wakest while the others sleep | E |
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| Dost thou not know me Yet I know | F |
| Thee and the ache that will not let thee rest | G |
| When thou wast tossing deep oppressed | G |
| And thy hot eyes the darkness sought in vain | H |
| I saw thee and I longed to soothe thy pain | H |
| Sorrow it is not that o'erwhelms thee so | F |
| But the perfidious touch that unperceived | G |
| Thy joy and even thy desire has thieved | G |
| Till all at once waking to where thou art | G |
| Upon thy shuddering heart | G |
| Look in with dreadful faces the calm Hours | I |
| Advancing to despoil thee utterly | J |
| Thou longest to be free | J |
| But O against thyself didst thou conspire | K |
| And hope grown gray and rusting powers | I |
| Tell thee that vain is thy desire | K |
| And counsel thee from all thy care to cease | L |
| Proposing to thy fretting sense outworn | H |
| Vacancy absolute and utter peace | L |
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| And is peace empty O look forth | M |
| Upon the moonlight spread | G |
| In stillness over the reclining earth | N |
| The stillness of a trance profound it seems | O |
| And a world bright and uninhabited | G |
| Yet how immortally how richly teems | O |
| Hush thy senses and hark | P |
| The silence fills | Q |
| With sounds unnumbered as the dark | P |
| With worlds whose coming not the swiftest sight | G |
| Affirms yet in an instant they are bright | G |
| Listen the whole air thrills | Q |
| With gentle and perpetual stir of birth | N |
| Softer than sighs budding and flourishing | R |
| Upward of each austere or tender thing | R |
| They pine not to haste back under the ground | G |
| But to embrace their being and to abound | G |
| Send thy thought onward over miles and miles | S |
| Of silence till at last it apprehend | G |
| Faintly the vastness in which thou hast part | G |
| Till the wrought cities melt like shadowy isles | S |
| Distant in radiance of the endless main | H |
| And of its solitude be purged thy heart | G |
| All this dear friend | G |
| A thousand thousand spirits and deep bliss | T |
| And waves of swelling and subsiding pain | H |
| Doth this immensity of peace contain | H |
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| But now O now give me no grief to bear | A |
| For thou must take my joy there is no room | U |
| For grief and I from care | A |
| Turn thee The moonlit air | A |
| Blows dimly to enchanted sense | V |
| Odour and memory it knows not whence | V |
| And our forgetful souls reminds to bloom | U |
| Does thy heart tremble I that have not sought | G |
| Joy but have found I bid thee refuse nought | G |
| But take the whole world welcome to thy breast | G |
| Else in no part possest | G |
| The Hours await thee ah they too | G |
| Love to be loved woo them and ever woo | G |
| Give me thy hand and farewell see I break | W |
| My branch of heather this I take | W |
| And bear in memory of this night and thee | J |
| But keep this by thee to remember me | J |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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