Living Monuments Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDD EFFEGG HIJHKL MNNMOO| OUR children are our monuments | A |
| The little ones we leave behind | B |
| If they are good and brave and kind | B |
| And labor here with true intents | C |
| Our lives and work perpetuate | D |
| Far more than marble tablets great | D |
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| Far rather would I pass away | E |
| And leave a sturdy son of mine | F |
| Whom I had taught to love the fine | F |
| The just and honest in his day | E |
| To serve the world with courage bold | G |
| Than have my life on granite told | G |
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| I'd rather feel when death is near | H |
| That in my children I shall live | I |
| No monument of stone would give | J |
| Me greater glory year by year | H |
| Than sons and daughters treading on | K |
| In truth and honor when I'm gone | L |
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| Who leaves a sturdy son on earth | M |
| A noble daughter sweet and pure | N |
| Has monuments that long endure | N |
| He needs no shaft to prove his worth | M |
| The luster of his children's deeds | O |
| Are all the monuments he needs | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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