Children's Playground In The City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCAB DEDEFFDE GHIJKKGH ELEMNNEL| THIS is a place where men laid their dead | A |
| Each with his life tale of good or ill | B |
| Here prayers were murmured and hot tears shed | A |
| And passionate anguish moaned its fill | B |
| Silent now is each voice that cried | C |
| And the tears that were wept have all been dried | C |
| In the dust and dust are the hearts that bled | A |
| With hopeless longing for hearts grown still | B |
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| Dead and forgotten for Death requiter | D |
| Of love taught Memory how to forget | E |
| The love that remembered them died Grow brighter | D |
| Oh dim grave garden with dead hearts set | E |
| Room for the small flying feet to pass | F |
| The feet of the children over the grass | F |
| The dead if they knew it would feel them lighter | D |
| Than the weight of a stone that no tears make wet | E |
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| We must die too and the grief that will live | G |
| Must die as surely death comes to all | H |
| But you who come after let Nature give | I |
| To our graves her tears to our dust her pall | J |
| Let her hide us away in her cold broad breast | K |
| Let us be forgotten and be at rest | K |
| And over our heads let the great world strive | G |
| And the children's voices carol and call | H |
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| If your heart on the flower of remembrance is set | E |
| There is one way to pluck it and only one | L |
| Dare you ask your country not to forget | E |
| A name that needs to be graved on stone | M |
| By grief strife sacrifice scorn of fame | N |
| You may grave on the people's hearts your name | N |
| Or your name may die and your soul live yet | E |
| In the cause you died for the work you have done | L |
Edith Nesbit
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