In Memoriam C. G. Gordon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFEFGF HIJIKI JLELJL MNENON| Devotion When thy name is named | A |
| What matchless visions rise | B |
| The Hebrew leaving Pharoah's house | C |
| To Israel's rescue flies | B |
| The Moabitess gleans content | D |
| Beneath the burning skies | B |
| - | |
| The flower of Christendom is given | E |
| To gain the Holy Grave | F |
| O'er Acre and o'er Askelon | E |
| The blessed banners wave | F |
| By Edward's bed I see thee kneel | G |
| O Queen beloved and brave | F |
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| Who art thou girl in warrior garb | H |
| St Catherine's sword in hand | I |
| 'Tis La Pucelle and France is free | J |
| O shame that thou must stand | I |
| Bound helpless at the cruel stake | K |
| To wait the headman's brand | I |
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| And now upon the wild North Sea | J |
| From Lindisfarne's bleak shore | L |
| To save the lives of shipwrecked men | E |
| A maiden plies the oar | L |
| Seamen and landsmen honour thee | J |
| Grace Darling evermore | L |
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| And swifter closer as I muse | M |
| The splendid spectres loom | N |
| And stately stands among them one | E |
| To glory passed from gloom | N |
| But late by waters of the Nile | O |
| In walls of lost Khartoum | N |
Mary Hannay Foott
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