God's-acre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJL| I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls | A |
| The burial ground God's Acre It is just | B |
| It consecrates each grave within its walls | A |
| And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust | B |
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| God's Acre Yes that blessed name imparts | C |
| Comfort to those who in the grave have sown | D |
| The seed that they had garnered in their hearts | C |
| Their bread of life alas no more their own | D |
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| Into its furrows shall we all be cast | E |
| In the sure faith that we shall rise again | F |
| At the great harvest when the archangel's blast | E |
| Shall winnow like a fan the chaff and grain | G |
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| Then shall the good stand in immortal bloom | H |
| In the fair gardens of that second birth | I |
| And each bright blossom mingle its perfume | H |
| With that of flowers which never bloomed on earth | I |
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| With thy rude ploughahare Death turn up the sod | J |
| And spread the furrow for the seed we sow | K |
| This is the field and Acre of our God | J |
| This is the place where human harvests grow | L |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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