Our Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCBC DEADEA| Yet what were Love if man remains unfree | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And woman's sunshine sordid merchandise | B |
| If children's Hope is blasted ere they see | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Its shoots of youth from out the branchlets rise | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp If thought is chained and gagged is Speech and Lies | B |
| Enthroned as Law befoul posterity | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And haggard Sin's ubiquitous disguise | B |
| Insults the face of God where'er men be | C |
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| Ay what were Love my love did we not love | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Our stricken brothers so as to resign | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp For Its own sake the foison of Its dower | A |
| That so we two may help them mount above | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp These layers of charnel air in which they pine | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To seek with us the Presence and the Power | A |
Bernard O'dowd
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