Recessional In Time Of War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDEBDFGDGDDHFHF IJKLMNMNHGBGGBBOOGGP GPP| Medical Unit | A |
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| Even as I see and share with you in seeing | B |
| The altar flame of your love's sacrifice | C |
| And even as I bear before the hour the vision | D |
| Your little hands in hospital and prison | D |
| Laid upon broken bodies dying eyes | E |
| So do I suffer for splendor of your being | B |
| Which leads you from me and in separation | D |
| Lays on my breast the pain of memory | F |
| Over your hands I bend | G |
| In silent adoration | D |
| Dumb for a fear of sorrow without end | G |
| Asking for consolation | D |
| Out of the sacrament of our separation | D |
| And for some faithful word acceptable and true | H |
| That I may know and keep the mystery | F |
| That in this separation I go forth with you | H |
| And you to the world's end remain with me | F |
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| How may I justify the hope that rises | I |
| That I am giving you to a world of pain | J |
| And am a part of your love's sacrifices | K |
| Is it so little if I see you not again | L |
| You will croon soldier lads to sleep | M |
| Even to the last sleep of all | N |
| But in this absence as your love will keep | M |
| Your breast for me for comfort if I fall | N |
| So I though far away shall kneel by you | H |
| If the last hour approaches to bedew | G |
| Your lips that from their infant wondering | B |
| Lisped of a heaven lost | G |
| I shall kiss down your eyes and count the cost | G |
| As mine who gave you by the tragic giving | B |
| Go forth with spirit to death and to the living | B |
| Bearing a solace in death | O |
| God has breathed on you His transfiguring breath | O |
| You are transfigured | G |
| Before me and I bow my head | G |
| And leave you in the light that lights your way | P |
| And shadows me Even now the hour is sped | G |
| And the hour we must obey | P |
| Look you I will go pray | P |
Edgar Lee Masters
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