The Junipers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CADA AEFG HIJI DKLK AMNM| Gray the slow sky darkens | A |
| Over the downland track | B |
| Where the long valley closes | A |
| Under a smooth hill's back | B |
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| The slope is darkly sprinkled | C |
| With ancient junipers | A |
| Each a small secret tree | D |
| There not a breath stirs | A |
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| I fear those waiting shapes | A |
| Of wry blue berried wood | E |
| They make a twilight in my mind | F |
| As if they drained my blood | G |
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| As if a spirit were prisoned | H |
| Within each writhen stem | I |
| And no one knows their kindred | J |
| Nor what frustrated them | I |
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| Along the empty valley | D |
| Like a ghost go I | K |
| My footsteps and my beating heart | L |
| Nothing signify | K |
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| Lost into nameless ages | A |
| That come slow cloud on cloud | M |
| From history's beginning | N |
| And all the future shroud | M |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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