Stafford Henry Northcote Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECCD| Gentle in fibre but of steadfast nerve | A |
| Still to do right though right won blame not praise | B |
| And fallen on evil tongues and evil days | B |
| When men from plain straight duty twist and swerve | A |
| And born to nobly sway ignobly serve | A |
| Sliming their track to power through tortuous ways | B |
| He felt with that fine sense that ne'er betrays | B |
| The line of moral beauty's not a curve | A |
| But proving wisdom folly virtue vain | C |
| He stretched his hands out to the other shore | D |
| And was by kindred spirits beckoned o'er | E |
| Into the gloaming Land where setteth pain | C |
| While we across the silent river strain | C |
| Idly our gaze and find his form no more | D |
Alfred Austin
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