The Road Menders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDAEFGGGCFD HIHHJKKLKKKHKLH KHKMHMKKHHNONOPKPKHH Q RQHKKRRHSRHTT

How solitary gleams the lamplit streetA
Waiting the far off mornB
How softly from the unresting city blowsC
The murmur borneB
Down this deserted wayD
Dim loiterers pass home with stealthy feetA
Now only sudden at their intervalE
The lofty chimes awaken and let fallF
Deep thrills of ordered soundG
Subsiding echoes gradually drownedG
In a great stillness that creeps up aroundG
And darkly growsC
Profounder over allF
Like a strong frost hushing a stormy dayD
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But who is this that by the brazier redH
Encamped in his rude hutI
With many a sack about his shoulder spreadH
Watches with eyes unshutH
The burning brazier flushes his old faceJ
Illumining the old thoughts in his eyesK
Surely the Night doth to her secreciesK
Admit him and the watching stars attuneL
To their high patience who so lightly seemsK
To bear the weight of many thousand dreamsK
Dark hosts around him sleeping numberlessK
He surely hath unbuilt all walls of thoughtH
To reach an air wide wisdom past accessK
Of us who labour in the noisy noonL
The noon that knows him notH
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For lo at last the gloom slowly retreatsK
And swiftly like an army comes the DayH
All bright and loud through the awakened streetsK
Sending a cheerful humM
And he has stolen awayH
Now with the morning shining round them comeM
Young men and strip their coatsK
And loose the shirts about their throatsK
And lightly up their ponderous hammers liftH
Each in his turn descending swiftH
With triple strokes that answer and beginN
Duly and quiver in repeated changeO
Marrying the eager echoes that weave inN
A music clear and strangeO
But pausing soon each lays his hammer downP
And deeply breathing baresK
His chest stalwart and brownP
To the sunny airsK
Laughing one to another limber handH
On limber hip flushed in a group they standH
And now untired renew their ringing toilQ
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The sun stands high and ever a fresh throngR
Comes murmuring but that eddying turmoilQ
Leaves many a loiterer prosperous or unfedH
On easy or unhappy waysK
At idle gazeK
Charmed in the sunshine and the rhythm enthrallingR
As of unwearied Fates for ever youngR
That on the anvil of necessityH
From measureless desire and quivering fearS
With musical sure lifting and downfallingR
Of arm and hammer driven perpetuallyH
Beat out in obscure spanT
The fiery destiny of manT

Robert Laurence Binyon



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