The Grey Company Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE CFGHIJKL KMMMNOPO CEQEGMMM ARMRMSMS CTATPMMM KUTUVWTE| O the grey grey company | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of the pallid dawn | B |
| O the ghostly faces | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Ashen like and drawn | B |
| The Lord's lone sentinels | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Dotted down the years | E |
| The little grey company | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Before the pioneers | E |
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| Dreaming of Utopias | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Ere the time was ripe | F |
| They awoke to scorning | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The jeering and the strife | H |
| Dreaming of millenniums | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In a world of wars | J |
| They awoke to shudder | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp At a flaming Mars | L |
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| Never was a Luther | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But a Huss was first | M |
| A fountain unregarded | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In the primal thirst | M |
| Never was a Newton | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Crowned and honoured well | O |
| But first alone Galileo | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Wasted in a cell | O |
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| In each other's faces | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Looked the pioneers | E |
| Drank the wine of courage | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp All their battle years | E |
| For their weary sowing | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Through the world wide | M |
| Green they saw the harvest | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Ere the day they died | M |
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| But the grey grey company | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Stood every man alone | R |
| In the chilly dawnlight | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Scarcely had they known | R |
| Ere the day they perished | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That their beacon star | S |
| Was not glint of marsh light | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp In the shadows far | S |
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| The brave white witnesses | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To the truth within | T |
| Took the dart of folly | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Took the jeer of sin | T |
| Crying Follow follow | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Back to Eden gate | M |
| They trod the Polar desert | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Met a desert fate | M |
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| Be laurel to the victor | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And roses to the fair | U |
| And asphodel Elysian | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Let the hero wear | U |
| But lay the maiden lilies | V |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon their narrow biers | W |
| The lone grey company | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Before the pioneers | E |
Jessie Mackay
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