The Future Verdict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFEF GHHGH ICCI JKKJ

How will our unborn children scoff at usA
In the good years to comeB
The happier ears to comeB
Because like driven sheep we yielded thusA
Before the shearers dumbB
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What are the words their wiser lips will sayC
'These men had gained the lightD
'These women knew the rightD
'They had their chance and let it slip awayC
'They did not when they mightD
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'They were the first to hear the gospel preachedE
'And to believe thereinF
'Yet they remained in sinF
'They saw the promised land they might have reachedE
'And dared not enter inF
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'They might have won their freedom had they triedG
'No savage laws forbadeH
'For them the way was madeH
'They might have had the joys for which they criedG
'And yet they shrank afraidH
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'Afraid to face the martyr's rack and flameI
'The traitor's dungeon NayC
'Of what their world would sayC
'The smile the joke the thinnest ghost of blameI
'Lord Lord What fools were they '-
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And we no longer actors of the stageJ
We cumber now maybeK
With other eyes shall seeK
This wasted chance and with celestial rageJ
Cry 'O what fools were we '-

Ada Cambridge



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