The Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCDEFGF HIHHI JKJKLMLM NBNNB OPOPQRAR| Out of the pregnant darkness where from fire | A |
| To glimmering fire the watchword leaps | B |
| The dirge floats up from those who build the pyre | A |
| High and still higher | A |
| That yet shall blaze across the verminous deeps | B |
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| Farewell O brother heart | C |
| Yet we shall not forget | D |
| Though hand from hand must part | C |
| Your hope is with us yet | D |
| The clank of the swaggerer's sword | E |
| And clink of the grasper's gold | F |
| Are not so loud as the lover's word | G |
| In a thousand echoes rolled | F |
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| The lords of the tottering order sit and plot | H |
| With cunning courtesy haggling still | I |
| The insistent chorus cannot be forgot | H |
| Its words are shot | H |
| Like summoning rockets from the eastern hill | I |
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| You it was you who showed | J |
| How Murder made his pact | K |
| In busy Greed's abode | J |
| Preparing for the act | K |
| To save the fatherland | L |
| They bade your comrades die | M |
| And full in their path you took your stand | L |
| To kill the patriot lie | M |
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| Now lest their flags and bags be lost in flame | N |
| The desperate pair have summoned those | B |
| Whose love is moderate and whose life is tame | N |
| To quench in shame | N |
| The light that streams where wind of warning blows | B |
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| The ranks of freedom swell | O |
| The flag of love rolls out | P |
| The efficient ranks of hell | O |
| Close up in deadly doubt | P |
| Moulded in battle's mire | Q |
| The bullet found its mark | R |
| A living spirit winged with fire | A |
| Flares homeward from the dark | R |
John Le Gay Brereton
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