To Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKGK LMNN NONO| Your hearts are lifted up your hearts | A |
| That have foreknown the utter price | B |
| Your hearts burn upward like a flame | C |
| Of splendour and of sacrifice | B |
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| For you you too to battle go | D |
| Not with the marching drums and cheers | E |
| But in the watch of solitude | F |
| And through the boundless night of fears | E |
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| Swift swifter than those hawks of war | G |
| Those threatening wings that pulse the air | H |
| Far as the vanward ranks are set | I |
| You are gone before them you are there | H |
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| And not a shot comes blind with death | J |
| And not a stab of steel is pressed | K |
| Home but invisibly it tore | G |
| And entered first a woman's breast | K |
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| Amid the thunder of the guns | L |
| The lightnings of the lance and sword | M |
| Your hope your dread your throbbing pride | N |
| Your infinite passion is outpoured | N |
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| From hearts that are as one high heart | N |
| Withholding naught from doom and bale | O |
| Burningly offered up to bleed | N |
| To bear to break but not to fail | O |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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