The Dead Return Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJ FFKKLLMMNN OOAAPPBBQR| THE dead return I know they do | A |
| The glad smile may have passed from view | A |
| The ringing voice that cheered us so | B |
| In that remembered long ago | B |
| Be stilled and yet in sweeter ways | C |
| It speaks to us throughout our days | C |
| The kindly father comes again | D |
| To guide us through the haunts of men | D |
| And always near their sons to greet | E |
| Are lingering the mothers sweet | E |
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| About us wheresoe'er we tread | F |
| Hover the spirits of our dead | F |
| We cannot see them as we could | G |
| In bygone days when near they stood | G |
| And shared the joys and griefs that came | H |
| But they are with us just the same | H |
| They see us as we plod along | I |
| And proudly smile when we are strong | I |
| And sigh and grieve the selfsame way | J |
| When thoughtlessly we go astray | J |
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| I sometimes think it hurts the dead | F |
| When into sin and shame we're led | F |
| And that they feel a thrill divine | K |
| When we've accomplished something fine | K |
| And sometimes thoughts that come at night | L |
| Seem more like messages that might | L |
| Have whispered been by one we love | M |
| Whose spirit has been called above | M |
| So wise the counsel it must be | N |
| That all we are the dead can see | N |
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| The dead return They come to share | O |
| Our laughter and our bit of care | O |
| They glory as they used to do | A |
| When we are splendid men and true | A |
| In all the joy that we have won | P |
| And they are proud of what we've done | P |
| They suffer when we suffer woe | B |
| All things about us here they know | B |
| And though we never see them here | Q |
| Their spirits hover very near | R |
Edgar Albert Guest
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