The Lost Leader Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDADEFGFAHIH JKJKLFJFJMFINOJO| Just for a handful of silver he left us | A |
| Just for a riband to stick in his coat | B |
| Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us | A |
| Lost all the others she lets us devote | B |
| They with the gold to give doled him out silver | C |
| So much was theirs who so little allowed | D |
| How all our copper had gone for his service | A |
| Rags were they purple his heart had been proud | D |
| We that had loved him so followed him honoured him | E |
| Lived in his mild and magnificent eye | F |
| Learned his great language caught his clear accents | G |
| Made him our pattern to live and to die | F |
| Shakespeare was of us Milton was for us | A |
| Burns Shelley were with us they watch from their graves | H |
| He alone breaks from the van and the freemen | I |
| He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves | H |
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| We shall march prospering not through 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 footpath untrod | F |
| One more triumph for devils and sorrow for angels | J |
| One wrong more to man one more insult to God | F |
| 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 | F |
| Never glad confident morning again | I |
| Best fight on well for we taught him strike gallantly | N |
| Menace our heart ere we pierce through 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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