The Thistle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNFN| In a patch of baked earth | A |
| At the crumbled cliff's brink | B |
| Where the parching of August | C |
| Has cracked a long chink | B |
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| Against the blue void | D |
| Of still sea and sky | E |
| Stands single a thistle | F |
| Tall tarnished and dry | E |
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| Frayed leaves spotted brown | G |
| Head hoary and torn | H |
| Was ever a weed | I |
| Upon earth so forlorn | H |
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| So solemnly gazed on | J |
| By the sun in his sheen | K |
| That prints in long shadow | L |
| Its raggedness lean | K |
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| From the sky comes no laughter | M |
| From earth not a moan | N |
| Erect stands the thistle | F |
| Its seeds abroad blown | N |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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