To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDCFC GCGCCC FHFCHC IJICJC KLKCLC| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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