The Rag-picker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFDEF GHIGHI JKLJKL MNOMPO| In the April sun | A |
| Shuffling shapeless bent | B |
| Cobweb eyed with stick | C |
| Searching one by one | A |
| Gutter heaps intent | B |
| Wretched rags to pick | C |
| - | |
| Oh is this a man | D |
| Man whose spirit erect | E |
| Trampling circumstance | F |
| Death and evil can | D |
| Measure worlds nor checked | E |
| By fell time and chance | F |
| - | |
| With undaunted eye | G |
| With a mouth of song | H |
| Front the starry blue | I |
| O you passers by | G |
| Moving swift and strong | H |
| Answer what seek you | I |
| - | |
| Husk of manhood mere | J |
| Shrivel of his kind | K |
| In a bloodless mask | L |
| How the old eyes peer | J |
| With no light behind | K |
| Mate of his mean task | L |
| - | |
| Yet this wreckage fill | M |
| With a thought possess | N |
| With a faith's empire | O |
| It shall be a will | M |
| Mightier than the seas | P |
| Man more dread than fire | O |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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