Memorial Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHI BBJJGGEE GGBBKKLL| The finest tribute we can pay | A |
| Unto our hero dead to day | A |
| Is not a rose wreath white and red | B |
| In memory of the blood they shed | B |
| It is to stand beside each mound | C |
| Each couch of consecrated ground | C |
| And pledge ourselves as warriors true | D |
| Unto the work they died to do | D |
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| Into God's valleys where they lie | E |
| At rest beneath the open sky | E |
| Triumphant now o'er every foe | F |
| As living tributes let us go | F |
| No wreath of rose or immortelles | G |
| Or spoken word or tolling bells | G |
| Will do to day unless we give | H |
| Our pledge that liberty shall live | I |
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| Our hearts must be the roses red | B |
| We place above our hero dead | B |
| To day beside their graves we must | J |
| Renew allegiance to their trust | J |
| Must bare our heads and humbly say | G |
| We hold the Flag as dear as they | G |
| And stand as once they stood to die | E |
| To keep the Stars and Stripes on high | E |
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| The finest tribute we can pay | G |
| Unto our hero dead to day | G |
| Is not of speech or roses red | B |
| But living throbbing hearts instead | B |
| That shall renew the pledge they sealed | K |
| With death upon the battlefield | K |
| That freedom's flag shall bear no stain | L |
| And free men wear no tyrant's chain | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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