Trafalgar Square Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEFE GHGH ICIC JKJL CJCJ MNMN COCP QRQS CACA TCTC NANA UVUVSlowly the dawn a magic paleness drew | A |
From windows dim the Pillar high in air | B |
Over dark statues and dumb fountains threw | A |
A shadow on the solitary square | B |
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They that all night dozing disquieted | C |
Huddled together on the benches cold | C |
Now shrank apart distrustful and unfed | C |
And by the growing radiance unconsoled | C |
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Then one a woman silently arose | D |
And came to the broad fountain brimming cool | E |
And over the stone margin leaning close | F |
Dipped hands and bathed her forehead in the pool | E |
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Now as the fresh drops ran upon her brow | G |
And her hands knotted up her hair the ways | H |
Of old lost mornings came to her and how | G |
Into her mirror she would smile and gaze | H |
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Then she was troubled and looked down once more | I |
Into the glimmering water and she seemed | C |
The very depth of darkness to explore | I |
If it might yield all that she feared and dreamed | C |
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But that kind clouding mirror answered her | J |
With a soft answer liquid mysteries | K |
Of shadow with a pale breeze just astir | J |
Yielded only the brightness of her eyes | L |
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It was herself but O what magic wrought | C |
A presage round her tender and obscure | J |
The water without stain refused her not | C |
In that deep vision she rejoined the pure | J |
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The dawn stole on and from its buried place | M |
Rose in her bosom the sweet strength of youth | N |
She the rejected had no more disgrace | M |
Her opening heart drew in a different truth | N |
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She that had come past her last hope and found | C |
Nothing beyond and had shed no more tears | O |
But closing with dull ashes her first wound | C |
Had trodden into the daily dust all fears | P |
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She now began to wonder and to thrill | Q |
Upon a new horizon and the pain | R |
Of hope began to quicken and to fill | Q |
The world with strangeness and desire again | S |
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O then I am not come quite to the end | C |
She murmured and life holds more than I knew | A |
Somewhere by seeking I may find a friend | C |
Perhaps and something in this world be true | A |
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Alone in this bright battle whose fierce din | T |
Even now awakes round her defenceless lot | C |
Without home friend comfort or peace within | T |
The very stones might weep her She weeps not | C |
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But as a plant that under parching drouth | N |
Thirsted and drooped and daily heavier grew | A |
Rises afresh to the soft showering south | N |
She lifts her forehead to the sun anew | A |
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And in her spirit a still fountain springs | U |
Deeper than hunger faith crying for life | V |
That to her eyes an inward clearness brings | U |
And to her heart courage for any strife | V |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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