The Bereaved Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLLL MLNL OPQP LRPR STUT| We grudged not those that were dearer than all we possessed | A |
| Lovers brothers sons | B |
| Our hearts were full and out of a full heart | C |
| We gave our belov d ones | B |
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| Because we loved we gave In the hardest hour | D |
| When at last so much unsaid | E |
| In the eyes they went simply with tender smile | F |
| Our hearts to the end they read | E |
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| They to their deeds To things that their soul hated | G |
| And yet to splendours won | H |
| From smoking hell by the spirit that moved in them | I |
| But we to endure alone | J |
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| Their hearts rested on ours their homing thoughts | K |
| Met ours in the still of the night | L |
| We ached with the ache of the long waiting and throbbed | L |
| With the throbs of the surging fight | L |
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| O had we failed them then were we desolate now | M |
| And separated indeed | L |
| What should have comforted what should have helped us then | N |
| In the time of our bitter need | L |
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| But now though sorrow be ever fresh sorrow | O |
| Is tender as love it knows | P |
| That of love it was born and Love with the shining eyes | Q |
| The hard way chose | P |
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| And out of deeps eternal night and day | L |
| A strength our sorrow frees | R |
| Flooding us full as the tide up the rivers flows | P |
| From the depth of the silent seas | R |
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| A strength that is mightier far than we yet a strength | S |
| Whereof our spirit is breath | T |
| Hope of the world that is strange to hazard and fear | U |
| To the wounds of Time and Death | T |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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