For The Living Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDDB EFEFGGGF HAHCIIIA DJDJKKKJ ILIBBB| IF you like a brother here | A |
| Tell him so | B |
| If you hold his friendship dear | C |
| Let him know | B |
| All the roses that you spread | D |
| On his bier when he is dead | D |
| Are not worth one kind word said | D |
| Years ago | B |
| - | |
| You can help a brother now | E |
| If you will | F |
| Smooth the furrows from his brow | E |
| You can kill | F |
| The despair that's in his heart | G |
| With a word and ease the smart | G |
| So why stand you now apart | G |
| Keeping still | F |
| - | |
| You can help a brother when | H |
| He is here | A |
| He would hold your praises then | H |
| Very dear | C |
| But absurdly still you stay | I |
| And withhold what you could say | I |
| That would cheer him on his way | I |
| For his bier | A |
| - | |
| What I wonder if the dead | D |
| Saw and heard | J |
| What is done and what is said | D |
| Afterward | J |
| Would they utter in reply | K |
| Would they smile and ask us why | K |
| When the time to help was nigh | K |
| No one stirred | J |
| - | |
| 'Keep your roses for the living ' | - |
| They would say | I |
| 'Waste no time in praises giving | L |
| Us today | I |
| Strew some living brother's way so | B |
| If you like another say so | B |
| For the thing that now you praise so | B |
| Is but clay ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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