When I Am Only I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON| When I am only I | A |
| The secret battle ground | B |
| Of world and will wherein | C |
| Self is so strictly bound | B |
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| Then am I condemned | D |
| Then can I understand | E |
| The heart crumbling to dust | F |
| And the eyes stopt with sand | E |
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| But when self fallen asleep | G |
| Quickens through all my veins | H |
| The entrancing light and stream | I |
| The rivers and the rains | H |
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| Though to the wondrous earth | J |
| The tendril senses cling | K |
| And amid living leaves | L |
| I as a bird sing | K |
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| The breath comes of a world | M |
| Beyond all human moan | N |
| There I am lost and there | O |
| I am come into mine own | N |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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