The Test Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CBCDBD| Naked reality and menace near | A |
| As fire to scorching flesh shall not affright | B |
| The spirit that sees with danger sharpened sight | B |
| What it must save or die for not the mere | A |
| Name but the thing now doubly trebly dear | A |
| Freedom the breath those hands would choke the light | B |
| They would put out the clean air they would blight | B |
| Making earth rank with hate and greed and fear | A |
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| Now no man's loss is private all share all | C |
| Oh each of us a soldier stands to day | B |
| Put to the proof and summoned to the call | C |
| One will one faith one peril Hearts be high | D |
| Most in the hour that's darkest Come what may | B |
| The soul in us is found and shall not die | D |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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