The Reformer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNM OPOP QBQB RSRS TUTU TVTW EXEY ZFZF TTTT A2B2A2B2| Hyde Park | A |
| August from a vault of hollow brass | B |
| Steep upon the sullen city glares | C |
| Yellower burns the sick and parching grass | B |
| Shivering in the breath of furnace airs | C |
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| Prone upon their pale outwearied brows | D |
| Miserable forms lie heavily | E |
| Cumbering the earth untimely boughs | D |
| Fallen from this world o'ershadowing tree | E |
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| London that with every buried sun | F |
| Shakes from her strong life a thousand lives | G |
| Feeds her heart with blood of hearts undone | F |
| Nourished with a million sorrows thrives | H |
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| Hither the Reformer comes a flame | I |
| Burns within his dark enthusiast gaze | J |
| Still he thirsts to show mankind their shame | I |
| Lift and drag them from their sinful ways | J |
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| Now amid the prostrate scattered throng | K |
| Standing he uplifts his earnest cry | L |
| Wake awake rise up from lust and wrong | K |
| Quickly seek God's mercy ere you die | L |
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| Thunder on your hesitation hangs | M |
| God prepares your fearful punishment | N |
| Flee while yet 'tis time those endless pangs | M |
| Hearken wretched sinners and repent '' | - |
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| Scarce the motion of a listless arm | O |
| Scarce the uneasy lifting of a head | P |
| Answers that stern trumpet of alarm | O |
| Still he sounds his vehement note of dread | P |
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| Hand in hand three children solemn eyed | Q |
| Wonder up into his face and pass | B |
| Often turning backward o'er the wide | Q |
| Hueless desert of the hazy grass | B |
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| Fierce the lava torrent of his speech | R |
| Pours on those dejected souls around | S |
| Yet his words no single bosom reach | R |
| Wither and fall idle on the ground | S |
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| Now at last he falters his own thought | T |
| His own voice is strange and far to him | U |
| The sun stares his meaning into naught | T |
| In the stillness all his fire is dim | U |
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| From those miserable forms unstirred | T |
| Now a mute imploring cry he hears | V |
| Like a stricken creature's without word | T |
| O what vain voice sounds upon our ears | W |
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| Powerless are thy terrors to appal | E |
| Welcome even so we feel the less | X |
| Heavy on our hearts and over all | E |
| This intolerable emptiness | Y |
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| Empty is the earth for us the skies | Z |
| Empty only lives the brazen sun | F |
| Empty are our hearts and if we rise | Z |
| There is nothing to be sought nor won | F |
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| If upon our silence thou intrude | T |
| Speak a speech that we may understand | T |
| Leave us to endure our solitude | T |
| Or reach out to us a brother's hand | T |
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| Join us to this life that round us teems | A2 |
| Let us breathe again that common breath | B2 |
| Bring us sorrow labour terrors dreams | A2 |
| Madness but deliver us from death | B2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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