In Memory Of Anyone Unknown To Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDFF GHHGIJ| At this particular time I have no one | A |
| Particular person to grieve for though there must | B |
| Be many many unknown ones going to dust | B |
| Slowly not remembered for what they have done | A |
| Or left undone For these then I will grieve | C |
| Being impartial unable to deceive | C |
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| How they lived or died is quite unknown | D |
| And by that fact gives my grief purity | E |
| An important person quite apart from me | E |
| Or one obscure who drifted down alone | D |
| Both or all I remember have a place | F |
| For these I never encountered face to face | F |
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| Sentiment will creep in I cast it out | G |
| Wishing to give these classical repose | H |
| No epitaph no poppy and no rose | H |
| From me and certainly no wish to learn about | G |
| The way they lived or died In earth or fire | I |
| They are gone Simply because they were human I admire | J |
Elizabeth Jennings
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