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 death | A |
| God knoweth his head was high | B |
| Quit we the coward's broken breath | A |
| Who watched a strong man die | B |
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| If we must say 'No more his peer | C |
| Cometh the flag is furled ' | - |
| Stand not too near him lest he hear | D |
| That slander on the world | E |
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| The good green earth he loved and trod | F |
| Is still with many a scar | G |
| Writ in the chronicles of God | F |
| A giant bearing star | G |
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| He fell but Britain's banner swings | H |
| Above his sunken crown | I |
| Black death shall have his toll of kings | H |
| Before that cross goes down | I |
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| Once more shall move with mighty things | H |
| His house of ancient tale | J |
| Where kings whose hands were kissed of kings | H |
| Went in and came out pale | J |
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| O young ones of a darker day | K |
| In art's wan colours clad | L |
| Whose very love and hate are grey | K |
| Whose very sin is sad | L |
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| Pass on one agony long drawn | M |
| Was merrier than your mirth | N |
| When hand in hand came death and dawn | M |
| And spring was on the earth | N |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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