For A War Memorial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI KLML| SUGGESTED INSCRIPTION PROBABLY NOT SUGGESTED BY THE COMMITTEE | A |
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| The hucksters haggle in the mart | B |
| The cars and carts go by | C |
| Senates and schools go droning on | D |
| For dead things cannot die | C |
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| A storm stooped on the place of tombs | E |
| With bolts to blast and rive | F |
| But these be names of many men | G |
| The lightning found alive | F |
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| If usurers rule and rights decay | H |
| And visions view once more | I |
| Great Carthage like a golden shell | J |
| Gape hollow on the shore | I |
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| Still to the last of crumbling time | K |
| Upon this stone be read | L |
| How many men of England died | M |
| To prove they were not dead | L |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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