The Shrine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEEFEF GHGHIJIJ CKCKLELE MNNNCOCO AEAECECE| For them we have builded a temple | A |
| To stand as a visible sign | B |
| For them we have builded a temple | A |
| And set in its great heart a shrine | B |
| Ere the dull years shall tarnish their story | C |
| While the spirit bides close to us yet | D |
| We have set up a shrine to their glory | C |
| Lest men should forget | D |
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| We have raised upa visible temple | A |
| Hewn from impermanent stone | E |
| And the spirit shall dwell in the temple | A |
| Yet not in the temple alone | E |
| Lest the spirit of that great oblation | E |
| Eternal transcending all pride | F |
| Dwell too in the heart of their nation | E |
| In vain they have died | F |
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| For a holier place has enshrined them | G |
| From treacherous time's swift decay | H |
| A temple more hallowed has held them | G |
| Inviolate unto today | H |
| But the friends of their friends too shall perish | I |
| The seed of their seed shall grow old | J |
| While for ever the flame that these cherish | I |
| A nation must hold | J |
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| So soon do their feet grow aweary | C |
| Of treading where glory had birth | K |
| So soon do their souls grow aweary | C |
| Of transient things of the earth | K |
| And they go to the great consummating | L |
| The goal of their pilgrimage won | E |
| To triumphant battalions awaiting | L |
| They drift one by one | E |
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| When the last tired veteran totters | M |
| From this fame's unstable abode | N |
| When the last tired footfall has echoed | N |
| And died in the dust of the road | N |
| Tho' they boast down the years of his story | C |
| If the spirit he left us shall fail | O |
| No shrine may envision that glory | C |
| No temple avail | O |
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| We have builded a visible temple | A |
| We have set us a tangible sign | E |
| For a symbol of that truer temple | A |
| A mark of that holier shrine | E |
| And nought of war's long tarnished story | C |
| Dwells there not of pride nor of pain | E |
| But all that remains of their glory | C |
| Who died not in vain | E |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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