Why? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJKHe was our leader and our guide | A |
He was our saviour and our star | B |
We walked in friendship by his side | A |
Yet set him where our heroes are | B |
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He taught disdain of fame and wealth | C |
With courage he inspired our youth | D |
He preached the purity of health | C |
And held aloft the torch of truth | D |
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He bade us battle for the Right | E |
And led us in the carnage grim | F |
He was to us a living light | E |
And like a God we worshiped him | F |
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He raised us from the grievous gloom | G |
And brimmed our hearts with radiant cheer | H |
And then he climbed up to his room | G |
And cut his throat from ear to ear | I |
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Let us not judge his seeming lapse | J |
His secret soul we could not see | K |
He smiled and left us and perhaps | J |
Death was his crowning victory | K |
Robert Service
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