Glimpses. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBBA CCCAAAAA DEDAFFFA AAA AGGGA AAAABBBA| Sounds of rural life and labour | A |
| Not the notes of pipe and tabour | A |
| Not the clash of helm and sabre | A |
| Bright'ning up the field of glory | A |
| Can compare with thy ovations | B |
| That make glad the hearts of nations | B |
| E'en the poet's fond creations | B |
| Pale before thy simple story | A |
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| In the years beyond our present | C |
| King was little more than peasant | C |
| Labour was the shining crescent | C |
| Toil the poor man's crown of glory | A |
| Have we passed from worse to better | A |
| Since we wove the silken fetter | A |
| Changed the plough for book and letter | A |
| Truest life for tinsel story | A |
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| Up the ladder of the ages | D |
| Clomb the patriarchal sages | E |
| Solving nature's secret pages | D |
| Kings of thought's supremest glory | A |
| Eagle winged and sight far reaching | F |
| Are we wiser for their teaching | F |
| Wrangling creeds for gentle preaching | F |
| Falsest life for truest story | A |
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| Man is overfraught with culture | A |
| Virtue early finds sepulture | A |
| While our vices sate the vulture | A |
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| We misname a bird of glory | A |
| Life is blindly artificial | G |
| Rarely pass we its initial | G |
| All our aims are prejudicial | G |
| To its earnest simple story | A |
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| Hail primeval life and labour | A |
| Martial notes of pipe and tabour | A |
| Gleam of spears and clash of sabre | A |
| Hero march from fields of glory | A |
| All the thundering ovations | B |
| Surging from the hearts of nations | B |
| Poet dreams and speculations | B |
| Pale before thy simple story | A |
Charles Sangster
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