Wingless Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBCCD EFEGFG ACCCCCCCC CCCGCG AHCCIICCI JCJKKC| I | A |
| Victory Was that proud word once so dear | B |
| Are difficulty patience effort hard | C |
| As danger's edge disputing yard by yard | C |
| The adversary without and the mind's fear | B |
| Are these our only angels friends austere | B |
| That find our hidden greatness out and guard | C |
| From the weak hour's betrayal faith unmarred | C |
| For look how we seem fall'n from what we were | D |
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| Worms feed upon the bodies of the brave | E |
| Who bled for us but we bewildered see | F |
| Viler worms gnaw the things they died to save | E |
| Old clouds of doubt and weariness oppress | G |
| Happy the dead we cry not now to be | F |
| In the day of this dissolving littleness | G |
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| II | A |
| O you dear Dead pardon For not resigned | C |
| We see though humbled half our purpose bent | C |
| And our hope blurred like men in banishment | C |
| Giants amid a blank mist groping blind | C |
| The nations ache And old greeds unconfined | C |
| Possess men sick at battle's blood hot spent | C |
| Yet sleek and busy and righteously content | C |
| To wage war safe and secret on their kind | C |
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| If all were simple as the way of hate | C |
| But we must reap where others sowed the seed | C |
| In time long past of folly and pride and greed | C |
| Confused with names idols and polities | G |
| Though over all earth where we think a State | C |
| There are but men and women only these | G |
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| III | A |
| Victory winged has flown far off again | H |
| She is in the soul she travels with the light | C |
| We see her on the distant mountain height | C |
| Desired but she has left us in the plain | I |
| Left us awhile to chafe and to complain | I |
| Yet keep our wills in this dark time's despite | C |
| Like those that went up to the horrible fight | C |
| Beneath their burdens plodding in the rain | I |
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| Courage The same stuff that so greatly bore | J |
| And greatly did is here for gods to find | C |
| And the dear human cause in the heart's core | J |
| Be the task always harder than we know | K |
| And victory further yet in pain we grow | K |
| The vision is before us not behind | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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