John Galsworthy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFHH IJIJKK LMLMNN| Not for vague honors not for treacherous power | A |
| He lived and toiled thro' this his earthy span | B |
| But to uphold and cultivate the dower | C |
| God given for enlightment of man | B |
| Here was no tale of talents mis applied | D |
| But of gifts to the last hour multiplied | D |
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| Grave kindly scrivener moved to no swift wrath | E |
| By tyrannies or Greed's condoning pleas | F |
| Pity was there for Vandal and for Goth | G |
| Clutching insensate at earth's vanities | F |
| Pity was there with truth and justice when | H |
| He held his shining mirror up to men | H |
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| That they might see themselves not as they seem | I |
| To smug content and sleek complacency | J |
| Lulled by the opiate of their false dream | I |
| But as some wise kind visitant might see | J |
| And weigh and by wise standards judge the worth | K |
| Of all the sad frailities of earth | K |
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| So he has lived and so he lays him down | L |
| Leaving a picture with us at the end | M |
| Not of some grim reformer's fretful frown | L |
| But of a pitying understanding friend | M |
| And if thro' him this blundering world should gain | N |
| One mite in wisdom life were not in vain | N |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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