Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFD GHHGIIG JKKJLLJ MNNMOPM QRRQSSQ TUUTVVT WXXWYYW ZA2A2ZLLZ| Grant me a moment of peace | A |
| Let me but open mine eyes | B |
| Forgetting the empire of lies | B |
| And warfare's majestic increase | A |
| Of national folly and hate | C |
| Ere I return to my fate | C |
| Grant me a moment of peace | A |
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| To what is I would turn from what seems | D |
| From a world where men fall and adore | E |
| The god that Fear shuddering bore | E |
| To Greed in the desert of dreams | D |
| Unholy inhuman impure | F |
| From the State to the loves that endure | F |
| To what is I would turn from what seems | D |
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| No man has been richer than I | G |
| Though he staggered with infinite gold | H |
| And bought of whatever is sold | H |
| Of the beauty that money can buy | G |
| In the wealth that is lost in the mart | I |
| And is stored in the innermost heart | I |
| No man has been richer than I | G |
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| Humbly a pilgrim I stood | J |
| Weary and hungry and lame | K |
| And out of the multitude came | K |
| Friends who were better than good | J |
| Friends who would not be denied | L |
| Where by the palpitant tide | L |
| Humbly a pilgrim I stood | J |
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| Now to my army of friends | M |
| A handful of petals I fling | N |
| Strays of perennial spring | N |
| Weeds but the lover who sends | M |
| Bled that each blossom might live | O |
| This is myself that I give | P |
| Now to my army of friends | M |
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| Comrade in exile to you | Q |
| Chiefly the gift should belong | R |
| You who will hear in my song | R |
| Echoes of days that we knew | Q |
| Blue and deep droning and clear | S |
| Far in the hills that are dear | S |
| Comrade in exile to you | Q |
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| Pause and remember them now | T |
| Plunge as you dived in the stream | U |
| To the sweet cool depth of your dream | U |
| The drooping sheltering bough | T |
| The brown rock lettered above | V |
| The still interfusion of love | V |
| Pause and remember them now | T |
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| There as we lay in the cave | W |
| And saw as an eye of the dark | X |
| The camp fire's slumbering spark | X |
| And heard the cataract rave | W |
| Your soul and my soul were as one | Y |
| Our life in one channel has run | Y |
| There as we lay in the cave | W |
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| Forth to the task of a man | Z |
| Youth and the valour of youth | A2 |
| Force and the ardour of truth | A2 |
| Give you a place in the van | Z |
| Love keeping step at your side | L |
| Chanting aloud as you stride | L |
| Forth to the task of a man | Z |
John Le Gay Brereton
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