The Future Verdict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFEF GHHGH ICCI JKKJHow will our unborn children scoff at us | A |
In the good years to come | B |
The happier ears to come | B |
Because like driven sheep we yielded thus | A |
Before the shearers dumb | B |
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What are the words their wiser lips will say | C |
'These men had gained the light | D |
'These women knew the right | D |
'They had their chance and let it slip away | C |
'They did not when they might | D |
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'They were the first to hear the gospel preached | E |
'And to believe therein | F |
'Yet they remained in sin | F |
'They saw the promised land they might have reached | E |
'And dared not enter in | F |
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'They might have won their freedom had they tried | G |
'No savage laws forbade | H |
'For them the way was made | H |
'They might have had the joys for which they cried | G |
'And yet they shrank afraid | H |
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'Afraid to face the martyr's rack and flame | I |
'The traitor's dungeon Nay | C |
'Of what their world would say | C |
'The smile the joke the thinnest ghost of blame | I |
'Lord Lord What fools were they ' | - |
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And we no longer actors of the stage | J |
We cumber now maybe | K |
With other eyes shall see | K |
This wasted chance and with celestial rage | J |
Cry 'O what fools were we ' | - |
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