The Monument Of Kindness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| We do not build our monuments in stone | A |
| The records of our life aren't cast in steel | B |
| We are forgot if when the spirit's flown | A |
| No human hearts our finger prints reveal | B |
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| If we have lived and died and left behind | C |
| No more than gold and lands that once were ours | D |
| No trace of having served our fellow kind | C |
| Then wasted were our talents and our powers | D |
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| But if when we have gone our impress stays | E |
| On human hearts whate'er has been our lot | F |
| We need no marble shafts to mark our ways | E |
| We shall live on nor ever be forgot | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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