The New World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDBEFFE FGHGFHIJJI FFFFFFKFFK LMNLNMOFFO IFPFQIRDDR FFSFFSFTTF UVIVIUWXXW| To the People of the United States | A |
| Now is the time of the splendour of Youth and Death | B |
| The spirit of man grows grander than men knew | C |
| The unbearable burden is borne the impossible done | D |
| Though harder is yet to do | C |
| Before this agony end and that be won | D |
| We seek through blinding battle in choking breath | B |
| The New World seen in vision Land of lands | E |
| In the midst of storms that desolate and divide | F |
| In the hour of the breaking heart O far descried | F |
| You build our courage you hold up our hands | E |
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| Men of America you that march to day | F |
| Through roaring London supple and lean of limb | G |
| Glimpsed in the crowd I saw you and in your eye | H |
| Something alert and grim | G |
| As knowing on what stern call you march away | F |
| To the wrestle of nations saw your heads held high | H |
| And that same moment far in a glittering beam | I |
| High over old and storied Westminster | J |
| The Stars and Stripes with England's flag astir | J |
| Sisterly twined and proud on the air astream | I |
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| Men of America what do you see Is it old | F |
| Towers of fame and grandeur time resigned | F |
| The frost of custom's backward gazing thought | F |
| Seek closer You shall find | F |
| Miracles hour by hour in silence wrought | F |
| Births and awakenings dyings never tolled | F |
| Invisible crumble and fall of prison bars | K |
| O wheresoever his home new or decayed | F |
| Man is older than all the things he has made | F |
| And yet the youngest spirit beneath the stars | K |
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| Rock cradled white and soaring out of the sea | L |
| I behold again the fabulous city arise | M |
| Manhattan Queen of thronged and restless bays | N |
| And of daring ships is she | L |
| O lands beyond that into the sunset gaze | N |
| Limitless teeming continent of surmise | M |
| I drink again that diamond air I thrill | O |
| To the lure of a wonder more than the wondrous past | F |
| And see before me ages yet more vast | F |
| Rising to challenge heart and mind and will | O |
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| What sailed they out to seek who of old came | I |
| To that bare earth and wild unhistoried coast | F |
| Not gold nor granaries nay nor a halcyon ease | P |
| For the weary and tempest tost | F |
| The unshaken soul they sought possessed in peace | Q |
| What seek we now and hazard all on the aim | I |
| In the heart of man is the undiscovered earth | R |
| Whose hope's our compass sweet with glorious passion | D |
| Of men's good will a world to forge and fashion | D |
| Worthy the things we have seen and brought to birth | R |
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| Taps of the Drum Now once again they beat | F |
| And the answer comes a continent arms Dread | F |
| Pity and Grief there is no escape The call | S |
| Is the call of the risen Dead | F |
| Terrible year of the nations' trampling feet | F |
| An angel has blown his trumpet over all | S |
| From the ends of the earth from East to uttermost West | F |
| Because of the soul of man that shall not fail | T |
| That will not make refusal or turn or quail | T |
| No nor for all calamity stay its quest | F |
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| And here here too is the New World born of pain | U |
| In destiny spelling hours The old world breaks | V |
| Its mould and life runs fierce and fluid a stream | I |
| That floods dissolves re makes | V |
| Each pregnant moment charged to its extreme | I |
| Quickens unending future and all's vain | U |
| But the onward mind that dares the oncoming years | W |
| And takes their storm a master Life shall then | X |
| Transfigure Time with yet more marvellous men | X |
| Hail to the sunrise Hail to the Pioneers | W |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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