To Them That Mourn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C DE FGFG HIHI HJHJ KLKL MNMN

Lift up your heads in life in deathA
God knoweth his head was highB
Quit we the coward's broken breathA
Who watched a strong man dieB
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If we must say 'No more his peerC
Cometh the flag is furled '-
Stand not too near him lest he hearD
That slander on the worldE
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The good green earth he loved and trodF
Is still with many a scarG
Writ in the chronicles of GodF
A giant bearing starG
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He fell but Britain's banner swingsH
Above his sunken crownI
Black death shall have his toll of kingsH
Before that cross goes downI
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Once more shall move with mighty thingsH
His house of ancient taleJ
Where kings whose hands were kissed of kingsH
Went in and came out paleJ
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O young ones of a darker dayK
In art's wan colours cladL
Whose very love and hate are greyK
Whose very sin is sadL
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Pass on one agony long drawnM
Was merrier than your mirthN
When hand in hand came death and dawnM
And spring was on the earthN

Gilbert Keith Chesterton



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