To Them That Mourn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB C DE FGFG HIHI HJHJ KLKL MNMNLift 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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