Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEEDDFGGFHHIIJ BKBBK LMNLOONBPBBPQQRSRTUU BBVBS WWWXBBXBBYYUZBBUZQA2 B2A2BBB2Q BBBC2C2D2D2B E2F2F2E2F2BE2BG2BG2F 2H2F2H2D2F2D2 I2AF2AF2I2J2I2| When life begins anew | A |
| And Youth from gathering flowers | B |
| From vague delights rapt musings twilight hours | B |
| Turns restless seeking some great deed to do | A |
| To sum his fostered dreams when that fresh birth | C |
| Unveils the real the thronged and spacious Earth | C |
| And he awakes to those more ample skies | D |
| By other aims and by new powers possessed | E |
| How deeply then his breast | E |
| Is filled with pangs of longing how his eyes | D |
| Drink in the enchanted prospect Fair it lies | D |
| Before him with its plains expanding vast | F |
| Peopled with visions and enriched with dreams | G |
| Dim cities ancient forests winding streams | G |
| Places resounding in the famous past | F |
| A kingdom ready to his hand | H |
| How like a bride Life seems to stand | H |
| In welcome and with festal robes arrayed | I |
| He feels her loveliness pervade | I |
| And pierce him with inexplicable sweetness | J |
| And in her smiles delighting and the fires | B |
| Of his own pulses passionate soul | K |
| Measure his strength by his desires | B |
| And the wide future by their fleetness | B |
| As his thought leaps to the long distant goal | K |
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| So eagerly across that unknown span | L |
| Of years he gazes what to him | M |
| Are bounds and barriers tales of Destiny | N |
| Death and the fabled impotence of man | L |
| Already in his marching dream | O |
| Men at his sun like coming seem | O |
| As with an inspiration stirred and he | N |
| To kindle with new thoughts degenerate nations | B |
| In sordid cares immersed so long | P |
| Thrilled with ethereal exultations | B |
| And a victorious expectancy | B |
| Even such as swelled the breasts of Bacchus' throng | P |
| When that triumphal burst of joy was hurled | Q |
| Upon the wondering world | Q |
| When from the storied sacred East afar | R |
| Down Indian gorges clothed in green | S |
| With flower reined tigers and with ivory car | R |
| He came the youthful god | T |
| Beautiful Bacchus ivy crowned his hair | U |
| Blown on the wind and flushed limbs bare | U |
| And lips apart and radiant eyes | B |
| And ears that caught the coming melodies | B |
| As wave on wave of revellers swept abroad | V |
| Wreathed with vine leaves shouting trampling onwards | B |
| With tossed timbrel and gay tambourine | S |
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| Alas the disenchanting years have rolled | W |
| On hearts and minds becoming cold | W |
| Mirth is gone from us and the world is old | W |
| O bright new comer filled with thoughts of joy | X |
| Joy to be thine amid these pleasant plains | B |
| Know'st thou not child what surely coming pains | B |
| Await thee for that eager heart's annoy | X |
| Misunderstanding disappointment tears | B |
| Wronged love spoiled hope mistrust and ageing fears | B |
| Eternal longing for one perfect friend | Y |
| And unavailing wishes without end | Y |
| Thou proud and pure of spirit how must thou bear | U |
| To have thine infinite hates and loves confined | Z |
| Schooled and despised How keep unquenched and free | B |
| Mid others' commerce and economy | B |
| Such ample visions oft in alien air | U |
| Tamed to the measure of the common kind | Z |
| How hard for thee swept on for ever hurled | Q |
| From hour to hour bewildered and forlorn | A2 |
| To move with clear eyes and with steps secure | B2 |
| To keep the light within fitly to scorn | A2 |
| These all too possible and easy goals | B |
| Trivial ambitions of soon sated souls | B |
| And patient in thy purpose to endure | B2 |
| The pity and the wisdom of the world | Q |
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| Vain vain such warning to those happy ears | B |
| Disturb not their delight By unkind powers | B |
| Doomed to keep pace with the relentless Hours | B |
| He too ere long shall feel Earth's glory change | C2 |
| Familiar names shall take an accent strange | C2 |
| A deeper meaning a more human tone | D2 |
| No more passed by unheeded or unknown | D2 |
| The things that then shall be beheld through tears | B |
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| Yet O just Nature thou | E2 |
| Who if men's hearts be hard art always mild | F2 |
| O fields and streams and places undefiled | F2 |
| Let your sweet airs be ever on his brow | E2 |
| Remember still your child | F2 |
| Thou too O human world if old desires | B |
| If thoughts not alien once can move thee now | E2 |
| Teach him not yet that idly he aspires | B |
| Where thou hast failed not soon let it be plain | G2 |
| That all who seek in thee for nobler fires | B |
| For generous passion spend their hopes in vain | G2 |
| Lest that insidious Fate foe of mankind | F2 |
| Who ever waits upon our weakness try | H2 |
| With whispers his unnerved and faltering mind | F2 |
| Palsy his powers for she has spells to dry | H2 |
| Like the March blast his blood turn flesh to stone | D2 |
| And conjuring action with necessity | F2 |
| Freeze the quick will and make him all her own | D2 |
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| Come then as ever like the Wind at morning | I2 |
| Joyous O Youth in the aged world renew | A |
| Freshness to feel the eternities around it | F2 |
| Rain stars and clouds light and the sacred dew | A |
| The strong sun shines above thee | F2 |
| That strength that radiance bring | I2 |
| If Winter come to Winter | J2 |
| When shall men hope for Spring | I2 |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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