To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDCFC GCGCCC FHFCHC IJICJC KLKCLCThe silence of traitorous feet | A |
The silence of close pent rage | B |
The roar and the sudden heart beat | A |
And the shot through the true heart going | C |
The truest heart of the age | B |
And the Nile serenely flowing | C |
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Carnage and curses and cries | D |
He utters never a word | E |
Still as a child he lies | D |
The wind of the desert is blowing | C |
Across the dead man of the Lord | F |
And the Nile is softly flowing | C |
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But the song is stilled in heaven | G |
To welcome one more king | C |
For the truth he hath witnessed and striven | G |
And let the world go crowing | C |
And Mammon's church bell go ring | C |
And the Nile blood red go flowing | C |
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Man who hated the sword | F |
Yet wielded the sword and axe | H |
Farewell O arm of the Lord | F |
The Lord's own harvest mowing | C |
With a wind in the smoking flax | H |
Where our foul rivers are flowing | C |
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In war thou didst cherish peace | I |
Thou slewest for love of life | J |
Hail hail thy stormy release | I |
Go home and await thy sowing | C |
The patient flower of thy strife | J |
Thy bread on the Nile cast flowing | C |
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Not thy earth to our earth alone | K |
Thy spirit is left with us | L |
Thy body is victory's throne | K |
And our hearts around it are glowing | C |
Would that we others died thus | L |
Where the Thames and the Clyde are flowing | C |
George Macdonald
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