A Duty Done - 1933 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DE EFF GHGHII JKJKLL| A duty done What else was there to do | A |
| A simple matter and as simply solved | B |
| His straight young mind worked straightly worked as true | A |
| As ever youth's clean mind Here no involved | B |
| And weighty pondering of faith or fact | C |
| Duty demanded and he leapt to act | C |
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| He leapt and died Could he but tell it now | D |
| There would be sure come no heroic tale | E |
| 'What else would any man do any how ' | - |
| This thing cried to be done How could he fail | E |
| The cry the danger Duty's sudden call | F |
| Then well a bit of bad luck That was all | F |
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| They say that youth grows cynical too prone | G |
| To weigh advantage thro' some modern plan | H |
| Changed from the clear eyed youth old days had known | G |
| More of a crafty huckster less a man | H |
| They say and they are answered by one youth | I |
| Proving again one wholesome human truth | I |
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| A duty done and valiantly done | J |
| Tho' death came in the doing yet who knows | K |
| At what wise ordering No living one | J |
| May say how kind death be to such as those | K |
| Youth unjustified triumphing on his way | L |
| Quiet hero of this world of work a day | L |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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