The Wharf On Thames-side; Winter Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Day begins cold and misty on soiled snow	A
That frost has ridged and crusted Sound of steps	B
Comes then a shape emerges from the mist	C
Without haste trudging tracks the feet know well	D
With his breath white upon the air before him	E
To old work Over the river hangs a crane	F
At the wharf's edge Scarved wheezing buttoned up	G
The stubble bearded crane man eyes the tide	H
Ruckling against moored barges under the bridge	I
Considers the blank moon the obstinate frost	J
Swings arms and beats them on his breast for warmth	K
And to his engine cabin disappears	L
Full fast impetuous the tide floods up Thames	M
And the solitary morning steals abroad	N
Over a million roofs intensely still	O
And distant in a dark sleep For whose joy	P
Was it the February moon all night	Q
Beamed silence like the healing of all noise	R
And beauty like compassion upon mean	S
Litter of energy and trading toil	T
Cinder heaps sacks tarpaulins and stale straw	U
Empty and full trucks rails and rows of carts	V
Shafts tilted backwards musty railway arch	W
Dingy brick wall huddled slate roofs It shone	X
On the clean snow and the fouled touches of light	Q
Mysterious as a dreamer's smile For whom	Y
Rose before dawn the spiritual pale mist	C
When imperceptibly the hue of the air	Z
Was altered and the dwindled beamless moon	A2
Looked like an exiled ghost till opposite	B2
The vapour flushed to airy rose and dawn	C2
Made the first long faint shadows Now the smoke	D2
Begins to go up from those chimnied roofs	E2
Across the water Trains with hissing speed	F2
And frosty flashes cross the shaken bridge	I
Filled each with faces eager and uneager	Z
Tired and fresh young and old bound for the desk	G2
The stool the counter threads in the roaring loom	Y
Of London What thoughts have they in their eyes	H2
That idly fall on the familiar river	Z
This passive moment before toil usurps	I2
Hand and brain Each a separate memoried world	J2
Of scheme and fancy of dreads and urgent hopes	K2
Hungers and solaces But which keeps not	L2
A private corner deep in heart or mind	M2
Where dwells what no one else knows And they pass	N2
Nameless in thousands with their mysteries by us	O2
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Slowly the city is waking in all its streets	P2
But dark impetuous silent full up Thames	M
The tide comes like a lover to his own	X
Comes like a lover as if it sought to pour	Z
Secrets to its listener of vast night and the old	Q2
Bright moon lit oceans of wild breaths of brine	R2
Of tall ships that it swung to an anchorage	S2
In the misty dawn and wanderers far away	T2
On the outer seas among adventurous isles	U2
Whose names are homely here As if the blood	V2
Of this our race poured back upon its heart	W2
Drawn by that moon of pale farewell it comes	X2
Brimming and buoyant with an eager ripple	Y2
Against the black stemmed barges and swift swirl	Z2
Of sucking eddies by stone piers and sound	A3
Like laughter along the grimed wall of the wharf	B3
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A great horse tugging at a truck stamps hoofs	C3
Upon the frozen ground A man beside him	E
Shouts or is silent Labourers here and there	Z
Deliberately in habit's motion take	D3
Each his work from the barges lighter men	E3
Call and the crane moves rattling in its iron	F3
It is plain day Still the up streaming tide	H
Pours its swift secret and the fading moon	A2
Lingers aloft But now the wakened wharf	B3
Stirred from its numbness the bright rails the trucks	G3
With snow upon them and the hoisting crane	F
Are touched with all the difference of mankind	M2
And the river whispering out of the travelled seas	H3
Of foreign ships and countries comes to them	I3
With a familiar usage each appears	L
As a faculty of the morning that begins	J3
Once more the inter threaded toil of men	E3

Robert Laurence Binyon

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