Lost Leader, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEBEFAGABHIH A JKJKLAJAJMAINOJO| I | A |
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| Just for a handful of silver he left us | B |
| Just for a riband to stick in his coat | C |
| Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us | B |
| Lost all the others she lets us devote | C |
| They with the gold to give doled him out silver | D |
| So much was theirs who so little allowed | E |
| How all our copper had gone for his service | B |
| Rags were they purple his heart had been proud | E |
| We that had loved him so followed him honoured him | F |
| Lived in his mild and magnificent eye | A |
| Learned his great language caught his clear accents | G |
| Made him our pattern to live and to die | A |
| Shakespeare was of us Milton was for us | B |
| Burns Shelley were with us they watch from their graves | H |
| He alone breaks from the van and the free men | I |
| He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves | H |
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| II | A |
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| We shall march prospering not thro' his presence | J |
| Songs may inspirit us not from his lyre | K |
| Deeds will be done while he boasts his quiescence | J |
| Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire | K |
| Blot out his name then record one lost soul more | L |
| One task more declined one more foot path untrod | A |
| One more devils' triumph and sorrow for angels | J |
| One wrong more to man one more insult to God | A |
| Life's night begins let him never come back to us | J |
| There would be doubt hesitation and pain | M |
| Forced praise on our part the glimmer of twilight | A |
| Never glad confident morning again | I |
| Best fight on well for we taught him strike gallantly | N |
| Menace our heart ere we master his own | O |
| Then let him receive the new knowledge and wait us | J |
| Pardoned in heaven the first by the throne | O |
Robert Browning
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