In Memoriam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG CHIHJKLK MNOPOPAP AQRQSTJT| Looking some papers over | A |
| Dusty and dim and old | B |
| I found some words that thrilled me | C |
| With their ring of genuine gold | B |
| Words that were better than rubies | D |
| And they stirred me even to tears | E |
| For the hand that wrote them has rested | F |
| Under the sod for years | G |
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| O name to be spoken softly | C |
| O sainted Thurlow Brown | H |
| The world lost one of its heroes | I |
| When he dropped the cross for the crown | H |
| And the cause he loved and fought for | J |
| Lost more than my tongue can tell | K |
| For he left no soul behind him | L |
| That could do the work so well | K |
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| When I think of his mighty labors | M |
| My own seem weak and vain | N |
| And I know that his place in the vineyard | O |
| Can never be filled again | P |
| But the burning words that he uttered | O |
| Or that dropped like coals from his pen | P |
| Shall live for ever and ever | A |
| In the hearts and minds of men | P |
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| O God if spirits do ever | A |
| Come down from heaven on high | Q |
| Let the spirit of this great hero | R |
| Sometimes be hovering nigh | Q |
| And give him the power to guide us | S |
| In all that we do or say | T |
| For the cause he loved and fought for | J |
| Oh grant it Lord I pray | T |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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