Love And Sacrifice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP BQBQ RSRS TUTU VDVD WXBX YZA2Z| CAN we not consecrate | A |
| To man and God above | B |
| This volume of our great | A |
| Supernal tide of love | B |
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| Twere wrong its wealth to waste | C |
| On merely me and you | D |
| In selfish touch and taste | C |
| As other lovers do | D |
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| This love is not as theirs | E |
| It came from the Divine | F |
| Whose glory still it wears | E |
| And print of Whose design | F |
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| The world is full of woe | G |
| The time is blurred with dust | H |
| Illusions breed and grow | G |
| And eyes and flesh s lust | H |
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| The mighty league with Wrong | I |
| And stint the weakling s bread | J |
| The very lords of song | I |
| With Luxury have wed | J |
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| Fair Art deserts the mass | K |
| And loiters with the gay | L |
| And only gods of brass | K |
| Are popular to day | L |
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| Two souls with love inspired | M |
| Such lightning love as ours | N |
| Could spread if we desired | M |
| Dismay among such powers | N |
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| Could social stables purge | O |
| Of filth where festers strife | P |
| Through modern baseness surge | O |
| A holier tide of life | P |
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| Yea two so steeped in love | B |
| From such a source could draw | Q |
| The angels from above | B |
| To lead all to their Law | Q |
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| We have no right to seek | R |
| Repose in rosy bower | S |
| When Hunger thins the cheek | R |
| Of childhood every hour | S |
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| Nor while the tiger Sin | T |
| Mid youths and maidens roams | U |
| Should Duty skulk within | T |
| These selfish cosy homes | U |
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| Our place is in the van | V |
| With those crusaders who | D |
| Maintain the rights of man | V |
| Gainst despot and his crew | D |
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| If sacrifice may move | W |
| Their load of pain from men | X |
| The greatest right of Love | B |
| Is to renounce It then | X |
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| Ah Love the earth is woe s | Y |
| And sadly helpers needs | Z |
| And till its burden goes | A2 |
| Our work is where it bleeds | Z |
Bernard O'dowd
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