To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHGHI JKJKLMLM JNJNOLOL| Do you remember one immortal | A |
| Lost moment out of time and space | B |
| What time we thought who passed the portal | A |
| Of that divine disastrous place | B |
| Where Life was slain and Truth was slandered | C |
| On that one holier hill than Rome | D |
| How far abroad our bodies wandered | C |
| That evening when our souls came home | D |
| - | |
| The mystic city many gated | E |
| With monstrous columns was your own | F |
| Herodian stones fell down and waited | G |
| Two thousand years to be your throne | F |
| In the grey rocks the burning blossom | H |
| Glowed terrible as the sacred blood | G |
| It was no stranger to your bosom | H |
| Than bluebells of an English wood | I |
| - | |
| Do you remember a road that follows | J |
| The way of unforgotten feet | K |
| Where from the waste of rocks and hollows | J |
| Climb up the crawling crooked street | K |
| The stages of one towering drama | L |
| Always ahead and out of sight | M |
| Do you remember Aceldama | L |
| And the jackal barking in the night | M |
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| Life is not void or stuff for scorners | J |
| We have laughed loud and kept our love | N |
| We have heard singers in tavern corners | J |
| And not forgotten the birds above | N |
| We have known smiters and sons of thunder | O |
| And not unworthily walked with them | L |
| We have grown wiser and lost not wonder | O |
| And we have seen Jerusalem | L |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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