The Approach Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCD EFGF HICI JKEK L MNONN PQRQ STUT CVWV XXYX ZA2B2A2 B2C2WC2 HFB2F HD2E2D2 B2XB2X X E EB2EB2 F2G2CG2 XGCG CE2GE2| A | |
| In the Grass Halt by the Wayside | B |
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| In my tired helpless body | C |
| I feel my sunk heart ache | D |
| But suddenly loudly | C |
| The far the great guns shake | D |
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| Is it sudden terror | E |
| Burdens my heart My hand | F |
| Flies to my head I listen | G |
| And do not understand | F |
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| Is death so near then | H |
| From this blazing light | I |
| Do I plunge suddenly | C |
| Into vortex Night | I |
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| Guns again the quiet | J |
| Shakes at the vengeful voice | K |
| It is terrible pleasure | E |
| I do not fear I rejoice | K |
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| On the Way Up | L |
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| The battery grinds and jingles | M |
| Mile succeeds to mile | N |
| Shaking the noonday sunshine | O |
| The guns lunge out a while | N |
| And then are still a while | N |
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| We amble along the highway | P |
| The reeking powdery dust | Q |
| Ascends and cakes our faces | R |
| With a striped sweaty crust | Q |
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| Under the still sky's violet | S |
| The heat throbs in the air | T |
| The white road's dusty radiance | U |
| Assumes a dark glare | T |
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| With a head hot and heavy | C |
| And eyes that cannot rest | V |
| And a black heart burning | W |
| In a stifled breast | V |
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| I sit in the saddle | X |
| I feel the road unroll | X |
| And keep my senses straightened | Y |
| Toward to morrow's goal | X |
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| There over unknown meadows | Z |
| Which we must reach at last | A2 |
| Day and night thunders | B2 |
| A black and chilly blast | A2 |
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| Heads forget heaviness | B2 |
| Hearts forget spleen | C2 |
| For by that mighty winnowing | W |
| Being is blown clean | C2 |
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| Light in the eyes again | H |
| Strength in the hand | F |
| A spirit dares dies forgives | B2 |
| And can understand | F |
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| And best Love comes back again | H |
| After grief and shame | D2 |
| And along the wind of death | E2 |
| Throws a clean flame | D2 |
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| The battery grinds and jingles | B2 |
| Mile succeeds to mile | X |
| Suddenly battering the silence | B2 |
| The guns burst out a while | X |
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| I lift my head and smile | X |
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| Nearer | E |
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| Nearer and ever nearer | E |
| My body tired but tense | B2 |
| Hovers 'twixt vague pleasure | E |
| And tremulous confidence | B2 |
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| Arms to have and to use them | F2 |
| And a soul to be made | G2 |
| Worthy if not worthy | C |
| If afraid unafraid | G2 |
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| To endure for a little | X |
| To endure and have done | G |
| Men I love about me | C |
| Over me the sun | G |
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| And should at last suddenly | C |
| Fly the speeding death | E2 |
| The four great quarters of heaven | G |
| Receive this little breath | E2 |
Robert Nichols
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