The Zeppelin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADCEFGHIGJBKJLKMN OMPAQRSQPSTDITUV| Guns far and near | A |
| Quick sudden angry | B |
| They startle the still street | C |
| Upturned faces appear | A |
| Doors open on darkness | D |
| There is a hurrying of feet | C |
| And whirled athwart gloom | E |
| White fingers of alarm | F |
| Point at last there | G |
| Where illumined and dumb | H |
| A shape suspended | I |
| Hovers a demon of the starry air | G |
| Strange and cold as a dream | J |
| Of sinister fancy | B |
| It charms like a snake | K |
| Poised deadly in the gleam | J |
| While bright explosions | L |
| Leap up to it and break | K |
| Is it terror you seek | M |
| To exult in Know then | N |
| Hearts are here | O |
| That the plunging beak | M |
| Of night winged murder | P |
| Strikes not with fear | A |
| So much as it strings | Q |
| To a deep elation | R |
| And a quivering pride | S |
| That at last the hour brings | Q |
| For them too the danger | P |
| Of those who died | S |
| Of those who yet fight | T |
| Spending for each of us | D |
| Their glorious blood | I |
| In the foreign night | T |
| That now we are neared to them | U |
| Thank we God | V |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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