The Heroes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HEHE IJIJ EKEK| By such strange and wonderful ways | A |
| God would save His world again | B |
| All our days are holy days | A |
| Starry heroes all our men | B |
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| There's naught common or unclean | C |
| In this splendid new made earth | D |
| Hearts uplifted eyes serene | C |
| Grief goes gayer now than mirth | D |
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| Quietly in the sacred night | E |
| Tears must fall O noble tears | F |
| That are shed in the Lords' sight | E |
| And are only for His ears | G |
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| Who would mourn aloud for sons | H |
| Gorgeous in our firmament | E |
| Starry constellations | H |
| In the way their fathers went | E |
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| From the innumerable grave | I |
| There will spring a world new born | J |
| With the austerest eyes and brave | I |
| And its clear gaze towards the morn | J |
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| He who gave His Son to die | E |
| For man's purchase gives once more | K |
| These His beloved sons to buy | E |
| Him a world worth dying for | K |
Katharine Tynan
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