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Grass From The Battle-field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Small sheaf	A
Of withered grass that hast not yet revealed	B
Thy story lo I see thee once more green	C
And growing on the battle field	B
On that last day that ever thou didst grow	D
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I look down thro' thy blades and see between	C
A little lifted clover leaf	A
Stand like a cresset and I know	D
If this were morn there should be seen	C
In its chalice such a gem	E
As decks no mortal diadem	E
Poised with a lapidary skill	F
Which merely living doth fulfil	F
And pass the exquisite strain of subtlest human will	F
But in the sun it lifteth up	G
A dry unjewelled cup	G
Therefore I see that day doth not begin	H
And yet I know its beaming lord	I
Hath not yet passed the hill of noon	J
Or thy lush blades	K
Would be more dry and thin	H
And every blade a thirsty sword	I
Edged with the sharp desire that soon	J
Should draw the silver blood of all the shades	K
I feel 't is summer This whereon I stand	L
Is not a hill nor as I think a vale	F
The soil is soft upon the generous land	L
Yet not as where the meeting streams take hand	L
Under the mossy mantle of the dale	F
Such grass is for the meadow If I try	M
To lift my heavy eyelids as in dreams	N
A power is on them and I know not why	M
Thou art but part the whole is unconfest	L
Beholding thee I long to know the rest	L
As one expands the bosom with a sigh	M
I stretch my sight's horizon but it seems	N
Ere it can widen round the mystery	O
To close in swift contraction like the breast	L
The air is held as by a charm	P
In an enforc d silence as like sound	L
As the dead man the living 'T is so still	F
I listen for it loud	L
And when I force my eyes from thy sole place	Q
And see a wider space	Q
Above around	L
In ragged glory like a torn	R
And golden natured cloud	L
O'er the dim field a living smoke is warm	S
As in a city on a sabbath morn	R
The hot and summer sunshine goes abroad	L
Swathed in the murky air	T
As if a god	L
Enrobed himself in common flesh and blood	L
Our heavy flesh and blood	L
And here and there	T
As unaware	T
Thro' the dull lagging limbs of mortal make	U
That keep unequal time the swifter essence brake	U
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But hark a bugle horn	R
And ere it ceases such a shock	V
As if the plain were iron and thereon	W
An iron hammer heavy as a hill	F
Swung by a monstrous force in stroke came down	X
And deafened Heaven I feel a swound	L
Of every sense bestunned	L
The rent ground seems to rock	V
And all the definite vision in such wise	Y
As a dead giant borne on a swift river	Z
Seems sliding off for ever	Z
When my reviving eyes	Y
As one that holds a spirit by his eye	M
With set inexorable stare	T
Fix thee and so I catch as by the hair	T
The form of that great dream that else had drifted by	M
I know not what that form may be	O
The lock I hold is all I see	O
And thou small sheaf art all the battle field to me	O
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The wounded silence hath not time to heal	F
When see upon thy sod	L
The round stroke of a charger's heel	F
With echoing thunder shod	L
As the night lightning shows	A2
A mole upon a momentary face	Q
So as that gnarled hoof strikes the indented place	Q
I see it and it goes	A2
And I hear the squadrons trot thro' the heavy shell and shot	L
And wheugh but the grass is gory	O
Forward ho blow to blow at the foe in they go	D
And 'tis hieover heigho for glory	O
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The rushing storm is past	L
But hark upon its track the far drums beat	L
And all the earth that at thy roots thou hast	L
Stirs shakes shocks sounds with quick strong tramp of feet	L
In time unlike the last	L
Footing to tap of drum	B2
The charging columns come	B2
And as they come their mighty martial sound	L
Blows on before them as a flaming fire	Z
Blows in the wind for as old Mars in ire	C2
Strode o'er the world encompassed in a cloud	L
So the swift legion o'er the quaking ground	L
Strode in a noise of battle Nigh and nigher	C2
I heard it like the long swell gathering loud	L
What time a land wind blowing from the main	D2
Blows to the burst of fury and is o'er	C2
As if an ocean on one fatal shore	C2
Fell in a moment whole and threw its roar	C2
Whole to the further sea and as the strain	D2
Of my strong sense cracked in the deafened ear	C2
And all the rushing tumult of the plain	D2
Topped its great arch above me a swift foot	L
Was struck between thy blades to the struck root	L
And lifted as into a sheath	E2
A sudden sword is thrust and drawn again	F2
Ere one can gasp a breath	G2
I was so near	C2
I saw the wrinkles of the leather grain	D2
The very cobbler's stitches and the wear	C2
By which I knew the wearer trod not straight	L
An honest shoe it seemed that had been good	L
To mete the miles of any country lane	D2
Nor did one sign explain	D2
'T was made to wade thro' blood	L
My shoe soft footstooled on this hearth so far	C2
From strife hath such a patch and as he past	L
His broken shoelace whipt his eager haste	L
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An honest shoe good faith that might have stood	L
Upon the threshold of a village inn	H
And welcomed all the world or by the byre	C2
And barn gone peaceful till the day closed in	H
And scraped at eve upon some homely gate	L
Ah Heaven might sit beside a cottage fire	C2
And touch the lazy log to softer flames than war	C2
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Long long thou wert alone	H2
I thought thy days were done	I2
Flat as ignoble grass that lies out mown	I2
By peaceful hands in June I saw thee lie	M
A worm crawled o'er thee and the gossamer	C2
That telegraphs Queen Mab to Oberon	I2
Lengthening his living message passed thee by	M
But rain fell and thy strawed blades one by one	I2
Began to stir and stir	C2
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And as some moorland bird	L
Whom the still hunter's stalking steps have stirred	L
When he stands mute and nothing more is heard	L
With slow succession and reluctant art	L
Grows upward from her bed	L
Each move a muffled start	L
And thro' the silent autumn covert red	L
Uplifts a throbbing head	L
That times the ambushed hunter's thudding heart	L
Or as a snow drop bending low	D
Beneath a flake of other snow	D
Thaws to its height when spring winds melt the skies	Y
And drip by drip doth mete a measured rise	Y
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Or as the eyelids of a child's fair eyes	Y
Lift from her lower lashes slow and pale	F
To arch the wonder of a fairy tale	F
So thro' the western light	L
I saw thee slowly rearing to thy height	L
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Then when thou hadst regained thy state	L
And while a meadow spider with three lines	J2
Enschemed thy three tall pillars green	I2
And made the enchanted air between	I2
Mortal with shining signs	J2
For the loud carrion flies were many and late	L
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Betwixt thy blades and stems	K2
There fell a hand	L
Soft small and white and ringed with gold and gems	K2
And on those stones of price	L2
I saw a proud device	L2
And words I could not understand	L
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Idly one by one	I2
The knots of anguish came undone	I2
The fingers stretched as from a cramp of woe	D
And sweet and slow	D
Moved to gracious shapes of rest	L
Like a curl of soft pale hair	C2
Drying in the sun	I2
And then they spread	L
And sought a wonted greeting in the air	C2
And strayed	L
Between thy blades and with each blade	L
As with meeting fingers played	L
And tresses long and fair	C2
Then again at placid length it lay	F
Stretched as to kisses of accustomed lips	M2
And again in sudden strain	I2
Sprang falling clenched with pain	I2
Till the knuckles white	L
Thro' the evening gray	F
Whitened and whitened as the snowy tips	M2
Of far hills glimmer thro' the night	L
But who shall tell that agony	I2
That beat thee beat thee into bloody clay	F
Red as the sards and rubies of the rings	N2
As when a bird fast by the fowler's net	L
A moment doth forget	L
His fetters and with desperate wings	N2
A sudden springs and falls	O2
And while from happy clouds the skylark calls	O2
Still feebler springs	N2
And fainter falls	O2
And still untamed upon the gory ground	L
With failing strength renews his deadly wound	L
At length the struggle ceased and my fixed eye	M
Perceived that every finger wan	I2
Did quiver like the quivering fan	I2
Of a dying butterfly	M
Nor long I watched until	F
Even the humming in the air was still	F
Then I gazed and gazed	L
Nor once my aching eyeballs raised	L
Till a poor bird that had a meadow nest	L
Came down	I2