In Memory Of George Calderon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADC EFGEHG IGJIKJ GLMGGM NOPNGQ RSGRGG TUVWVV GNVGVV GGXGVX GAGGGG AYIAZM A2GJA2VJ GB2GGGG GQGGGG| Wisdom and Valour Faith | A |
| Justice the lofty names | B |
| Of virtue's quest and prize | C |
| What is each but a cold wraith | A |
| Until it lives in a man | D |
| And looks thro' a man's eyes | C |
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| On Chivalry as I muse | E |
| The spirit so high and clear | F |
| It cannot soil with aught | G |
| It meets of foul misuse | E |
| It turns wherever burns | H |
| The flame of a brave thought | G |
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| And wheresoever the moan | I |
| Of the helpless and betrayed | G |
| Calls from near or far | J |
| It replies as to its own | I |
| Need and is armed and goes | K |
| Straight to its sure pole star | J |
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| No legendary knight | G |
| Renowned in an ancient cause | L |
| I warm my thought upon | M |
| There comes to the mind's sight | G |
| One whom I knew whose hand | G |
| Grasped mine George Calderon | M |
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| Him now as of old I see | N |
| Carrying his head with an air | O |
| Courteous and virile | P |
| With the charm of a nature free | N |
| Daring resourceful prompt | G |
| In his frank and witty smile | Q |
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| By Oxford towers and streams | R |
| Who shone among us all | S |
| In body and brain so bold | G |
| Who shaped so firm his themes | R |
| Crystal hard in debate | G |
| And who hid a heart less cold | G |
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| Lover of strange tongues | T |
| Whether in snowy Russia | U |
| Or tropic island bowers | V |
| Listening to the songs | W |
| Of the soft eyed islanders | V |
| Crowned with Tahitian flowers | V |
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| A maker of friends he went | G |
| Yet who divined him wholly | N |
| Or his secret chivalries | V |
| Was all that accomplishment | G |
| Wit alertness grace | V |
| But a kind of blithe disguise | V |
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| Restless in curious thought | G |
| And subtle exploring mind | G |
| He mixt his modern vein | X |
| With a strain remotely brought | G |
| From an older blood than ours | V |
| Proud loyalties of Spain | X |
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| Was it the soul of a sword | G |
| For a bright sword leapt from sheath | A |
| Upon that August day | G |
| When war's full thunder stored | G |
| Over Europe suddenly crashed | G |
| And a choice upon each man lay | G |
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| Others had left their youth | A |
| In the taming years and some | Y |
| Doubted some made moan | I |
| To meet the peril of truth | A |
| With aught but a gay courage | Z |
| Was not for Calderon | M |
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| Wounded from France he came | A2 |
| His spirit halted not | G |
| In that long battle afar | J |
| Fruitless in all but fame | A2 |
| Athos and Ida saw | V |
| Where sank his gallant star | J |
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| O well could I set my mood | G |
| To a mournful falling measure | B2 |
| For a friend dear and dead | G |
| And well could memory brood | G |
| Singing of youth's delight | G |
| And lost adventure fled | G |
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| But that so fearless friend | G |
| With his victorious smile | Q |
| My mourning mood has chid | G |
| He went to the very end | G |
| He counted not the cost | G |
| What he believed he did | G |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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