The Future Verdict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFEF GHHGH ICCI JKKJ| How 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 |
| - | |
| '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 |
| - | |
| '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 ' | - |
Ada Cambridge
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