Commemoration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB BBBBCB DEDEFE GHGHBH IBIBJB BKBLML| I sat by the granite pillar and sunlight fell | A |
| Where the sunlight fell of old | B |
| And the hour was the hour my heart remembered well | A |
| And the sermon rolled and rolled | B |
| As it used to roll when the place was still unhaunted | B |
| And the strangest tale in the world was still untold | B |
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| And I knew that of all this rushing of urgent sound | B |
| That I so clearly heard | B |
| The green young forest of saplings clustered round | B |
| Was heeding not one word | B |
| Their heads were bowed in a still serried patience | C |
| Such as an angel's breath could never have stirred | B |
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| For some were already away to the hazardous pitch | D |
| Or lining the parapet wall | E |
| And some were in glorious battle or great and rich | D |
| Or throned in a college hall | E |
| And among the rest was one like my own young phantom | F |
| Dreaming for ever beyond my utmost call | E |
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| O Youth the preacher was crying deem not thou | G |
| Thy life is thine alone | H |
| Thou bearest the will of the ages seeing how | G |
| They built thee bone by bone | H |
| And within thy blood the Great Age sleeps sepulchred | B |
| Till thou and thine shall roll away the stone | H |
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| Therefore the days are coming when thou shalt burn | I |
| With passion whitely hot | B |
| Rest shall be rest no more thy feet shall spurn | I |
| All that thy hand hath got | B |
| And One that is stronger shall gird thee and lead thee swiftly | J |
| Whither O heart of Youth thou wouldest not | B |
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| And the School passed and I saw the living and dead | B |
| Set in their seats again | K |
| And I longed to hear them speak of the word that was said | B |
| But I knew that I longed in vain | L |
| And they stretched forth their hands and the wind of the spirit took them | M |
| Lightly as drifted leaves on an endless plain | L |
Henry Newbolt
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