The Two Desires Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAABDDAEEEDDAABAB BBBFGF AADDDAHHIAAJJIKLIKLL| What is the spirit's desire | A |
| Sprung springing singing | B |
| Fountain fresh rainbowed over with lights that awaken | C |
| The inner dishevelled crystal starrily shaken | C |
| To sevenfold changes of fire | A |
| Youth in its wonder aflower | A |
| Up to the sun swinging | B |
| A March daffodil braves the bright wind's cold | D |
| Sensitive silken softness yet how bold | D |
| Against the cold snow flurry and sleet shower | A |
| Because it seeks what mark | E |
| Beyond the tower of the lark | E |
| Who sees the dawn from the dark | E |
| Only itself to unfold | D |
| Expand outpour be told | D |
| All all to utter | A |
| Delicate thought's moth flutter | A |
| And hope's proud sweeping voyage of wings sky reaping | B |
| To soar and to explore | A |
| In the midst of this mind soiling | B |
| Earth medley and flesh toiling | B |
| Cares betrayal and pain's returning sting | B |
| Still to spring still to sing | B |
| Flame and flower of the mind | F |
| Seeking bliss in this | G |
| Itself itself to find | F |
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| What is the spirit's desire | A |
| Comes Experience after | A |
| Experience and Comparison mockers old | D |
| Trail of a tarnishing cloud is heavily rolled | D |
| And harsher than shadow or cold | D |
| Pitiless light searches the shallows of laughter | A |
| For terrible truth in the world rock seated | H |
| Yet not because shadow fearing or world defeated | H |
| But natively in its own unprompted sort | I |
| Because of desire profounder than desire | A |
| O now where aims the spirit Higher higher | A |
| Than ever flight up carried it Now that aim | J |
| Is a greatness greater than hero's name and fame | J |
| A beauty passionate more than flesh can support | I |
| Divine greatness divine beauty a pain | K |
| Appeasing all pains flying not blight or bruise | L |
| But seeking its own afar conceived resort | I |
| The spirit is only fain | K |
| Itself to lose | L |
| Lose lose | L |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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