General Gordon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCDEFEFGG A HIIHHIIHJKLMJL| I | A |
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| Victorious through failure faithful Lord | B |
| Who for twelve angel legions wouldst not pray | C |
| From thine own country of eternal day | C |
| To shield thee from the lanterned traitor horde | B |
| Making thy one rash servant sheathe his sword | B |
| Our long retarded legions on their way | C |
| Toiling through sands and shouldering Nile's down sway | C |
| To reach thy soldier keeping at thy word | D |
| Thou sawest foiled but glorifiedst him | E |
| Over ten cities giving him thy rule | F |
| We will not mourn a star that grew not dim | E |
| A soldier child of God gone home from school | F |
| A dregless cup with life brimmed he did quaff | G |
| And quaffs it now with Christ's imperial staff | G |
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| II | A |
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| Another to the witnesses' roll call | H |
| Hath answered Here I am and so stept out | I |
| With willingness crowned everywhere about | I |
| Not the head only but the body all | H |
| In one great nimbus of obedient fall | H |
| His heart's blood dashing in the face of doubt | I |
| Love's last victorious stand amid the rout | I |
| Silence is left and the untasted gall | H |
| No chariot with ramping steeds of fire | J |
| The Father sent to fetch his man child home | K |
| His brother only called My Gordon come | L |
| And like a dove to heaven he did aspire | M |
| His one wing Death his other Heart's desire | J |
| Farewell a while we climb where thou hast clomb | L |
George Macdonald
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