Charles Sumner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NONP QRQR JSJS| Garlands upon his grave | A |
| And flowers upon his hearse | B |
| And to the tender heart and brave | A |
| The tribute of this verse | B |
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| His was the troubled life | C |
| The conflict and the pain | D |
| The grief the bitterness of strife | C |
| The honor without stain | D |
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| Like Winkelried he took | E |
| Into his manly breast | F |
| The sheaf of hostile spears and broke | G |
| A path for the oppressed | F |
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| Then from the fatal field | H |
| Upon a nation's heart | I |
| Borne like a warrior on his shield | H |
| So should the brave depart | I |
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| Death takes us by surprise | J |
| And stays our hurrying feet | K |
| The great design unfinished lies | J |
| Our lives are incomplete | K |
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| But in the dark unknown | L |
| Perfect their circles seem | M |
| Even as a bridge's arch of stone | L |
| Is rounded in the stream | M |
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| Alike are life and death | N |
| When life in death survives | O |
| And the uninterrupted breath | N |
| Inspires a thousand lives | P |
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| Were a star quenched on high | Q |
| For ages would its light | R |
| Still travelling downward from the sky | Q |
| Shine on our mortal sight | R |
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| So when a great man dies | J |
| For years beyond our ken | S |
| The light he leaves behind him lies | J |
| Upon the paths of men | S |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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