Forgotten Dead, I Salute You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEEFGCHICI BJKJLMINI AOADOPPQPQAFAF RSTJSUJIUI| Dawn has flashed up the startled skies | A |
| Night has gone out beneath the hill | B |
| Many sweet times before our eyes | A |
| Dawn makes and unmakes about us still | B |
| The magic that we call the rose | C |
| The gentle history of the rain | D |
| Has been unfolded traced and lost | E |
| By the sharp finger tips of frost | E |
| Birds in the hawthorn build again | F |
| The hare makes soft her secret house | G |
| The wind at tourney comes and goes | C |
| Spurring the green unharnessed boughs | H |
| The moon has waxed fierce and waned dim | I |
| He knew the beauty of all those | C |
| Last year and who remembers him | I |
| - | |
| Love sometimes walks the waters still | B |
| Laughter throws back her radiant head | J |
| Utterly beauty is not gone | K |
| And wonder is not wholly dead | J |
| The starry mortal world rolls on | L |
| Between sweet sounds and silences | M |
| With new strange wines her beakers brim | I |
| He lost his heritage with these | N |
| Last year and who remembers him | I |
| - | |
| None remember him he lies | A |
| In earth of some strange sounding place | O |
| Nameless beneath the nameless skies | A |
| The wind his only chant the rain | D |
| The only tears upon his face | O |
| Far and forgotten utterly | P |
| By living man Yet such as he | P |
| Have made it possible and sure | Q |
| For other lives to have to be | P |
| For men to sleep content secure | Q |
| Lip touches lip and eyes meet eyes | A |
| Because his heart beats not again | F |
| His rotting fruitless body lies | A |
| That sons may grow from other men | F |
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| He gave as Christ the life he had | R |
| The only life desired or known | S |
| The great sad sacrifice was made | T |
| For strangers this forgotten dead | J |
| Went out into the night alone | S |
| There was his body broken for you | U |
| There was his blood divinely shed | J |
| That in the earth lie lost and dim | I |
| Eat drink and often as you do | U |
| For whom he died remember him | I |
Muriel Stuart
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