Winter Sunrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DED FGH IJK LMD NNO PEG DHD NQHR DSNTAD DDRUDGVDW DCXYKZA2CB2C2D D2E2F2G G2GH2UI2| It is early morning within this room without | A |
| Dark and damp without and within stillness | B |
| Waiting for day not a sound but a listening air | C |
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| Yellow jasmine delicate on stiff branches | D |
| Stands in a Tuscan pot to delight the eye | E |
| In spare December's patient nakedness | D |
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| Suddenly softly as if at a breath breathed | F |
| On the pale wall a magical apparition | G |
| The shadow of the jasmine branch and blossom | H |
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| It was not there it is there in a perfect image | I |
| And all is changed It is like a memory lost | J |
| Returning without a reason into the mind | K |
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| And it seems to me that the beauty of the shadow | L |
| Is more beautiful than the flower a strange beauty | M |
| Pencilled and silently deepening to distinctness | D |
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| As a memory stealing out of the mind's slumber | N |
| A memory floating up from a dark water | N |
| Can be more beautiful than the thing remembered | O |
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| I turn to the window and out of a low cloud | P |
| Is a brimming over of brightness dazzling the eye | E |
| With levelled brilliance fiery fresh the Sun | G |
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| As in absent thought with dreaming eyes I gaze | D |
| On sudden shadows gliding across the rime | H |
| A vision comes before me in utter silence | D |
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| The earth is moving the earth is rolling over | N |
| All that is usual all that goes unquestioned | Q |
| is taken from me | H |
| wider wider the doors of vision are opening | R |
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| Horizon opening into unguessed horizons | D |
| And I with the earth am moving into the light | S |
| The earth is moving the earth is rolling over | N |
| into the light long long | T |
| shadows of trees run out | A |
| are running across the grass | D |
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| With frosty plains mountains and curving coasts | D |
| Cities and rivers forests burning deserts | D |
| Seas and the sprinkled islands passing passing | R |
| But all transparent Under the generous earth | U |
| The careless waters I see the original fires | D |
| Leaping in spasms seeking to burst their prison | G |
| And I remember that human eyes have seen | V |
| Solid earth yawn and cities shaken to fragments | D |
| Ocean torn to the bottom and great ships swallowed | W |
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| Now more terrible than those blind convulsions | D |
| Are men at war on land on the seas in the air | C |
| War war in the brain in the obstinate will | X |
| war in the brain war in the will war | Y |
| No refuge or hiding place anywhere for the mind | K |
| And now I hear everywhere sound of battle | Z |
| The seekers after destruction there is no refuge | A2 |
| Death death death on the earth in the sea in the air | C |
| Yet oh it is a single soul always in the midst | B2 |
| Each is a single soul | C2 |
| O it cannot be yet it is | D |
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| Let me not be so stunned that I cannot feel | D2 |
| Imagination is but a little cup | E2 |
| It can hold but a minim part | F2 |
| Can a little cup contain an ocean | G |
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| My dreaming eyes return | G2 |
| The flower of winter remembers its own season | G |
| And the beautiful shadow upon the pale wall | H2 |
| Is imperceptibly moving with ancient earth | U |
| Around the sun that timeless measures sure and silent | I2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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