To Them That Mourn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC D EF GHGH IJIJ IKIK ALAL MNMN| W E G May | A |
| - | |
| Lift up your heads in life in death | B |
| God knoweth his head was high | C |
| Quit we the coward's broken breath | B |
| Who watched a strong man die | C |
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| If we must say 'No more his peer | D |
| Cometh the flag is furled ' | - |
| Stand not too near him lest he hear | E |
| That slander on the world | F |
| - | |
| The good green earth he loved and trod | G |
| Is still with many a scar | H |
| Writ in the chronicles of God | G |
| A giant bearing star | H |
| - | |
| He fell but Britain's banner swings | I |
| Above his sunken crown | J |
| Black death shall have his toll of kings | I |
| Before that cross goes down | J |
| - | |
| Once more shall move with mighty things | I |
| His house of ancient tale | K |
| Where kings whose hands were kissed of kings | I |
| Went in and came out pale | K |
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| O young ones of a darker day | A |
| In art's wan colours clad | L |
| Whose very love and hate are grey | A |
| Whose very sin is sad | L |
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| Pass on one agony long drawn | M |
| Was merrier than your mirth | N |
| When hand in hand came death and dawn | M |
| And spring was on the earth | N |
G. K. Chesterton
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