Length Of Days To The Early Dead In Battle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IGIG JKJK LILM NOPH| There is no length of days | A |
| But yours boys who were children once Of old | B |
| The past beset you in your childish ways | A |
| With sense of Time untold | B |
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| What have you then forgone | C |
| A history This you had Or memories | D |
| These too you had of your far distant dawn | E |
| No further dawn seems his | F |
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| The old man who shares with you | G |
| But has no more no more Time's mystery | H |
| Did once for him the most that it can do | G |
| He has had infancy | H |
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| And all his dreams and all | I |
| His loves for mighty Nature sweet and few | G |
| Are but the dwindling past he can recall | I |
| Of what his childhood knew | G |
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| He counts not any more | J |
| His brief his present years But O he knows | K |
| How far apart the summers were of yore | J |
| How far apart the snows | K |
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| Therefore be satisfied | L |
| Long life is in your treasury ere you fall | I |
| Yes and first love like Dante's O a bride | L |
| For ever mystical | M |
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| Irrevocable good | N |
| You dead and now about so young to die | O |
| Your childhood was there Space there Multitude | P |
| There dwelt Antiquity | H |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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