The Tiger-lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUCC VVWWXXYYZZQQA2A2B2B2 C2C2OOD2D2E2F2G2IH2H 2I2I2J2J2K2K2J2J2J2J 2SSE2E2 TTL2L2M2M2J2J2N2N2J2 J2O2B2J2J2E2E2J2J2P2 P2J2J2J2J2J2J2 Q2Q2R2R2J2J2E2E2ZZS2 S2J2J2J2J2J2J2J2J2M2 M2J2J2J2J2| What wouldst thou with me By what spell | A |
| My spirit allure absorb compel | A |
| The last long beam that thou didst drink | B |
| Is buried now on evening's brink | B |
| The garden's leafy alleys lone | C |
| With shadowy stem and mossy stone | C |
| Intangibly seem now to dress | D |
| Colour and odour motionless | E |
| A stealing darkness breathes around | F |
| As if it rose out of the ground | F |
| And tingeing into it soft gold | G |
| Ebbs and the dewy green glooms cold | G |
| And dim boughs into black retire | H |
| But thou seven throated Flower of Fire | I |
| Sombring all the shadows near thee | J |
| Dost still as if the night did fear thee | J |
| Glory amid the failing hues | K |
| And this invading dusk refuse | K |
| And breathing out thy languid spice | L |
| My spirit to thine own entice | L |
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| Warm wafts that linger touch my cheek | M |
| What is it in me thou wouldst seek | M |
| Thou meltest all my thoughts away | N |
| As leaf on leaf is mingled grey | N |
| In shadow on shadow past discerning | O |
| O cold to touch to vision burning | O |
| What power is in thee so to change | P |
| And my familiar sense estrange | P |
| Thou seemest born within a mind | Q |
| That has no ken of human kind | Q |
| Remote from quick heart curious brain | R |
| Feeling in joy thinking in pain | R |
| Remote as beauty of sleeping snow | S |
| Is from a flame's wild shredded glow | S |
| Remote from mirth anger or care | T |
| Or the deep wound and want of prayer | T |
| Yet like some word of splendid speech | U |
| Beyond our human hearing's reach | U |
| Whose meaning could its sound be known | C |
| Might earth's imprisoned secret own | C |
| That binds as with a viewless thread | V |
| This throbbing heart of joy and dread | V |
| With tremblings of the wayside grass | W |
| And pillars of the mountain pass | W |
| And circling of the stars extreme | X |
| In boundless heights of heaven I dream | X |
| My dark heart into earth I heap | Y |
| My spirit over with cold sleep | Y |
| Resign my senses one by one | Z |
| To glooms that never saw the sun | Z |
| Fade from this self to what behind | Q |
| Earth's myriad shapes is urging blind | Q |
| Am emptied of man's name become | A2 |
| A blankness as the mountain dumb | A2 |
| If so I may attain to win | B2 |
| The secret thou art rooted in | B2 |
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| Can life renounce not life Must still | C2 |
| The inexorably moving will | C2 |
| Seek and make rankle the dulled sting | O |
| Of essence Must the desert spring | O |
| Revive and the forgotten seed | D2 |
| Be drawn again by its old need | D2 |
| Through blind beginnings of a sense | E2 |
| And dark desire of difference | F2 |
| And fear and hope that feeds on fear | G2 |
| To its own destined character | I |
| I cannot lose nor abdicate | H2 |
| The separateness of my state | H2 |
| Nor thou that out of burial drawn | I2 |
| Through the black earth didst shoot and dawn | I2 |
| Tender and small and green and mount | J2 |
| In air a springing silent fount | J2 |
| Until the cold bud sheathed so long | K2 |
| Slow swelled and burst like sudden song | K2 |
| Into the sun's delight and naught | J2 |
| Of costliest tissue ever wrought | J2 |
| Fragrant and in rare colours dyed | J2 |
| For the white body of a bride | J2 |
| Or king's anointing feast could so | S |
| Enrich the noon or inly glow | S |
| To lose the sweetly kindled sense | E2 |
| In mystery of magnificence | E2 |
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| Was there no cost to make thee fair | T |
| Did no far off long pains prepare | T |
| Those clustered curves of incense breath | L2 |
| Did nothing suffer unto death | L2 |
| To poise thee in thy glory Came | M2 |
| No tinge upon thy coloured flame | M2 |
| From sighs Was there no bosom bled | J2 |
| That thou mightest be perfected | J2 |
| As serving some taskmaster's doom | N2 |
| A brown slave patient at the loom | N2 |
| Toils weaving his fine web of gold | J2 |
| More precious than his race to fold | J2 |
| In soft attire an idle queen | O2 |
| When long his own thin hands have been | B2 |
| Dust but in all their toil arrayed | J2 |
| She through her pillared palace shade | J2 |
| Glows flower like and her young gaze has | E2 |
| No thought of any deep Alas | E2 |
| Threaded into the sumptuous vest | J2 |
| That lies upon her perfumed breast | J2 |
| Or as at crimsoned eve on high | P2 |
| Some dying warrior turns his eye | P2 |
| Where lifted over spear and sword | J2 |
| Among the loud victorious horde | J2 |
| A golden trophy gleams with blood | J2 |
| That from his own spent body flowed | J2 |
| And trumpets sound across the sand | J2 |
| To sunset in a conquered land | J2 |
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| O thou wast from life's weltering ore | Q2 |
| Breathed by enchanting mind before | Q2 |
| Man was in his own shape Far far | R2 |
| Thou seemest as the evening star | R2 |
| Yet movest me like that lone light | J2 |
| Fetched through the ages of the night | J2 |
| Into this breathing garden close | E2 |
| Or like the things that no man knows | E2 |
| In a child's eyes or like for one | Z |
| Watching a seaward sinking sun | Z |
| Beyond cold wastes of water pale | S2 |
| The dim communion of a sail | S2 |
| Ah though I know not what thou art | J2 |
| Yet in the fastness of my heart | J2 |
| How shall I tell what lies unwrought | J2 |
| Into the figured films of thought | J2 |
| Uncoloured yet by sharp or sweet | J2 |
| Or what forge of transforming heat | J2 |
| Threatens this world of use and fact | J2 |
| Wherewith the busy brain is packed | J2 |
| Thou art of me O Flower of Flame | M2 |
| What is not uttered has no name | M2 |
| The springing of a want unmated | J2 |
| A joy no fallen hour has dated | J2 |
| Some of my mystery thou holdest | J2 |
| Secretly splendidly unfoldest | J2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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