Vigil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEED FGGFEHHE EDDEIGGD| In the hollow of pale night upon the moor | A |
| The silence blows a perfume O but hark | B |
| A sound is in the bosom of the dark | B |
| Breathed like a secret from the glimmering shore | C |
| A vigil of unearthly sound the sea | D |
| That never slumbers and begins anew | E |
| And melts into our hearts amid the dew | E |
| Murmuring on the moor to you and me | D |
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| Out of a silence dateless as the old earth | F |
| Before ear heard or ever voice could frame | G |
| Speech or the human dearness of a name | G |
| To glorify man's longing or his mirth | F |
| Ere ever any place was historied | E |
| For hearts that sever yet their own home keep | H |
| That sound comes immemorial like sleep | H |
| Fresh with the morning in dark softness hid | E |
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| O Love O Love were we not there we too | E |
| In far nights and wild silences Were we | D |
| Not part of this old secret of the sea | D |
| For O your kiss thrilling my body through | E |
| Touches me from eternity as if I | I |
| And you were of the things before Time came | G |
| To measure men's desire and loss and shame | G |
| And no use disenchants this mystery | D |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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