The Doubtful To-morrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC AADD AABB AAEE FFBB| Whenever I walk through God's Acres of Dead | A |
| I wonder how often the mute voices said | A |
| 'I will do a kind deed or will lighten a sorrow | B |
| Or rise to a sacrifice splendid to morrow ' | C |
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| I wonder how many fine thoughts unexpressed | A |
| Were lost to the world when they went to their rest | A |
| I wonder what beautiful deeds they'd have done | D |
| If they had but witnessed to morrow's bright sun | D |
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| Oh if the dead grieve it is not for their fate | A |
| For death comes to all of us early or late | A |
| But their sighs of regret and their burdens of sorrow | B |
| Are born of the joys they'd have scattered to morrow | B |
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| Do the friends they'd have cheered know the thoughts of the dead | A |
| Do they treasure to day the last words that were said | A |
| What mem'ries would sweeten what hearts cease to burn | E |
| If but for a day the dead friends could return | E |
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| We know not the hour that our summons shall come | F |
| We know not the time that our voice shall be dumb | F |
| Yet even as they to our ultimate sorrow | B |
| We leave much that's fine for that doubtful to morrow | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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