The Vision Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK LMLN OPOP QRQR STST UVUV WSWS XYXY ZA2B2C2 D2E2D2E2 F2D2F2D2 G2H2H2H2 H2H2H2H2| An average man was Private Flynn | A |
| Good stuff for soldiering no doubt | B |
| Troublesome when the drink was in | A |
| A quiet lad when it was out | B |
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| Too fond of gaming and the girls | C |
| And given to 'language' that would fright | D |
| His mother dreaming of his curls | C |
| And his soft boyish ways at night | D |
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| He had forgotten how to pray | E |
| The way she taught him at her knees | F |
| Her prayers ran like a river all day | E |
| And while she slept gave little ease | F |
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| The Calvary by Souchez holds | G |
| Wide arms to clasp the new made beds | H |
| Where lie nor toss their browns and golds | G |
| The precious the beloved heads | H |
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| Flynn's Captain who had proved a friend | I |
| At times a friend is needed most | J |
| Slept there and comfort was at end | I |
| Because Flynn's faithful friend was lost | K |
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| 'Gassed ' O'er that twisted grace and dumb | L |
| Flynn swore a choking oath to give | M |
| No quarter when the day should come | L |
| And fed his hate to thrive and live | N |
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| Lest that his Captain feel forgot | O |
| At night when all the trenches slept | P |
| Flynn tended like a garden plot | O |
| The grave o'er which the night dews wept | P |
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| He raised a little cross of sticks | Q |
| Pansies forget me nots amid | R |
| Over him the gaunt Crucifix | Q |
| Shed comfort or he thought it did | R |
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| Rank disobedience No one knew | S |
| How Flynn so devil may care and brave | T |
| Courted destruction just to do | S |
| A little gardening on a grave | T |
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| One night the shells lit all the dark | U |
| Burst in a million splinters of flame | V |
| At morn before the singing lark | U |
| Flynn to his tender office came | V |
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| He smoothed the clay where it was rough | W |
| With his hard tender hand he drew | S |
| As 'twere a quilt of silken stuff | W |
| Between the sleeper and the dew | S |
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| All done he stretched his six foot four | X |
| And yawning in the dawn's pale glow | Y |
| Bent to the Crucifix once more | X |
| Saluted ere he turned to go | Y |
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| Then here's the marvel the dead Christ | Z |
| Opened His Eyes the very Eyes | A2 |
| That Mary loved which through a mist | B2 |
| The saved souls see in Paradise | C2 |
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| Flynn like Elijah caught to Heaven | D2 |
| Plain Private Flynn saw God revealed | E2 |
| Unto a simple soldier given | D2 |
| The secret heart of Heaven unsealed | E2 |
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| Could he go back to common joys | F2 |
| After the joys of Heaven were won | D2 |
| The quietness was rent with noise | F2 |
| The death sprang from the hidden gun | D2 |
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| They shot Flynn's eyes out That was good | G2 |
| Eyes that saw God are better blind | H2 |
| Flynn muses on beatitude | H2 |
| His empty eye sockets behind | H2 |
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| In a bare London hospital ward | H2 |
| He smiles and prays the live long day | H2 |
| He who has seen the living Lord | H2 |
| Has Light upon the darkest way | H2 |
Katharine Tynan
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