W. E. Gladstone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBDB BEBE FGFG BBBB HIHI| Lift up your heads in life in death | A |
| God knoweth his head was high | B |
| Quit we the coward's broken breath | A |
| Who watched a strong man die | B |
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| If ye must say No more his peer | C |
| Cometh the flag is furled | B |
| Stand not too near him lest we hear | D |
| That slander on the world | B |
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| The good green earth he loved and trod | B |
| Is still with many a scar | E |
| Writ in the chronicles of God | B |
| A giant bearing star | E |
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| He fell but Britain's banner swings | F |
| Above his sunken crown | G |
| Black Death shall have his toil of kings | F |
| Before the cross goes down | G |
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| O young ones of a darker day | B |
| In Art's wan colours clad | B |
| Whose very love and hate are grey | B |
| Whose very sin is sad | B |
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| Pass on one agony long drawn | H |
| Was merrier than your mirth | I |
| When hand in hand came death and dawn | H |
| And spring was on the earth | I |
G. K. Chesterton
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