The Statues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRSR TUTV WXWX YZYZ A2B2A2B2 C2A2C2A2 D2E2D2E2 A2A2A2A2 IFIF| Tarry a moment happy feet | A |
| That to the sound of laughter glide | B |
| O glad ones of the evening street | A |
| Behold what forms are at your side | B |
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| You conquerors of the toilsome day | C |
| Pass by with laughter labour done | D |
| But these within their durance stay | C |
| Their travail sleeps not with the sun | D |
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| They like dim statues without end | E |
| Their patient attitudes maintain | F |
| Your triumphing bright course attend | E |
| But from your eager ways abstain | F |
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| Now if you chafe in secret thought | G |
| A moment turn from light distress | H |
| And see how Fate on these hath wrought | G |
| Who yet so deeply acquiesce | H |
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| Behold them stricken silent weak | I |
| The maimed the mute the halt the blind | J |
| Condemned amid defeat to seek | I |
| The thing which they shall never find | J |
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| They haunt the shadows of your ways | K |
| In masks of perishable mould | L |
| Their souls a changing flesh arrays | K |
| But they are changeless from of old | L |
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| Their lips repeat an empty call | M |
| But silence wraps their thoughts around | N |
| On them like snow the ages fall | M |
| Time muffles all this transient sound | N |
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| When Shalmaneser pitched his tent | O |
| By Tigris and his flag unfurled | P |
| And forth his summons proudly sent | O |
| Into the new unconquered world | P |
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| Or when with spears Cambyses rode | Q |
| Through Memphis and her bending slaves | R |
| Or first the Tyrian gazed abroad | S |
| Upon the bright vast outer waves | R |
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| When sages star instructed men | T |
| To the young glory of Babylon | U |
| Foreknew no ending even then | T |
| Innumerable years had flown | V |
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| Since first the chisel in her hand | W |
| Necessity the sculptor took | X |
| And in her spacious meaning planned | W |
| These forms and that eternal look | X |
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| These foreheads moulded from afar | Y |
| These soft unfathomable eyes | Z |
| Gazing from darkness like a star | Y |
| These lips whose grief is to be wise | Z |
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| As from the mountain marble rude | A2 |
| The growing statue rises fair | B2 |
| She from immortal patience hewed | A2 |
| The limbs of ever young despair | B2 |
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| There is no bliss so new and dear | C2 |
| It hath not them far off allured | A2 |
| All things that we have yet to fear | C2 |
| They have already long endured | A2 |
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| Nor is there any sorrow more | D2 |
| Than hath ere now befallen these | E2 |
| Whose gaze is as an opening door | D2 |
| On wild interminable seas | E2 |
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| O Youth run fast upon thy feet | A2 |
| With full joy haste thee to be filled | A2 |
| And out of moments brief and sweet | A2 |
| Thou shalt a power for ages build | A2 |
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| Does thy heart falter Here then seek | I |
| What strength is in thy kind With pain | F |
| Immortal bowed these mortals weak | I |
| Gentle and unsubdued remain | F |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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