Trafalgar Square Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DEFE GHGH ICIC JKJL CJCJ MNMN COCP QRQS CACA TCTC NANA UVUV

Slowly the dawn a magic paleness drewA
From windows dim the Pillar high in airB
Over dark statues and dumb fountains threwA
A shadow on the solitary squareB
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They that all night dozing disquietedC
Huddled together on the benches coldC
Now shrank apart distrustful and unfedC
And by the growing radiance unconsoledC
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Then one a woman silently aroseD
And came to the broad fountain brimming coolE
And over the stone margin leaning closeF
Dipped hands and bathed her forehead in the poolE
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Now as the fresh drops ran upon her browG
And her hands knotted up her hair the waysH
Of old lost mornings came to her and howG
Into her mirror she would smile and gazeH
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Then she was troubled and looked down once moreI
Into the glimmering water and she seemedC
The very depth of darkness to exploreI
If it might yield all that she feared and dreamedC
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But that kind clouding mirror answered herJ
With a soft answer liquid mysteriesK
Of shadow with a pale breeze just astirJ
Yielded only the brightness of her eyesL
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It was herself but O what magic wroughtC
A presage round her tender and obscureJ
The water without stain refused her notC
In that deep vision she rejoined the pureJ
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The dawn stole on and from its buried placeM
Rose in her bosom the sweet strength of youthN
She the rejected had no more disgraceM
Her opening heart drew in a different truthN
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She that had come past her last hope and foundC
Nothing beyond and had shed no more tearsO
But closing with dull ashes her first woundC
Had trodden into the daily dust all fearsP
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She now began to wonder and to thrillQ
Upon a new horizon and the painR
Of hope began to quicken and to fillQ
The world with strangeness and desire againS
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O then I am not come quite to the endC
She murmured and life holds more than I knewA
Somewhere by seeking I may find a friendC
Perhaps and something in this world be trueA
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Alone in this bright battle whose fierce dinT
Even now awakes round her defenceless lotC
Without home friend comfort or peace withinT
The very stones might weep her She weeps notC
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But as a plant that under parching drouthN
Thirsted and drooped and daily heavier grewA
Rises afresh to the soft showering southN
She lifts her forehead to the sun anewA
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And in her spirit a still fountain springsU
Deeper than hunger faith crying for lifeV
That to her eyes an inward clearness bringsU
And to her heart courage for any strifeV

Robert Laurence Binyon



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