Charles George Gordon. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EECC| Rather be dead than praised he said | A |
| That hero like a hero dead | A |
| In this slack sinewed age endued | B |
| With more than antique fortitude | B |
| - | |
| Rather be dead than praised Shall we | C |
| Who loved thee now that Death sets free | C |
| Thine eager soul with word and line | D |
| Profane that empty house of thine | D |
| - | |
| Nay let us hold be mute Our pain | E |
| Will not be less that we refrain | E |
| And this our silence shall but be | C |
| A larger monument to thee | C |
Henry Austin Dobson
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