The Greater Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFGGHIHIJJKK KKLLEKEKMMNONOMMMPMP QDORORSSMTMTAAMKMKUU MQMQAA| ONCE upon a time | A |
| Little Golden Head | B |
| Steeples used to chime | A |
| And their chiming said | B |
| 'Peace is in the land | C |
| Joy on every hand ' | D |
| Glowing youths and men | E |
| Rose and went their ways | F |
| Some to hill and glen | E |
| Some to shining bays | F |
| And they left behind | G |
| Ills of heart and mind | G |
| Oh but it was sweet | H |
| Underneath the trees | I |
| Bare of throat and feet | H |
| Bathed in golden ease | I |
| Two and two to lie | J |
| While the hours went by | J |
| Sweet indeed it was | K |
| Thus to lie and laze | K |
| Couched upon the grass | K |
| Through the shining days | K |
| Sweet to breathe the air | L |
| Free of toil and care | L |
| On the beaches then | E |
| Sporting with the sea | K |
| Gathered brown limbed men | E |
| Graced like statuary | K |
| Chiselled by some bold | M |
| Master hand of old | M |
| All were guests of Joy | N |
| All his sportive clan | O |
| Here a shouting boy | N |
| There a jesting man | O |
| While the breakers hymned | M |
| Braving them stout limbed | M |
| Listen Golden Head | M |
| Came a Wondrous One | P |
| Unto each and said | M |
| 'Look on me my son | P |
| Am I not above | Q |
| All things else you love ' | D |
| Then that love began | O |
| Which is more than life | R |
| More than love of man | O |
| Love of maid or wife | R |
| Love of queen or king | S |
| Aught or anything | S |
| Little Golden Head | M |
| Is it well to tell | T |
| How they wrought and bled | M |
| How they fought and fell | T |
| In their glowing prime | A |
| Once upon a time | A |
| Nay but it is writ | M |
| That such things must be | K |
| Oh the shame of it | M |
| Oh the tragedy | K |
| Oh the days of rue | U |
| Oh the glory too | U |
| Little Golden Head | M |
| By the skies above | Q |
| By our honoured dead | M |
| You shall know that love | Q |
| Know and hold the time | A |
| When 'twas born sublime | A |
Roderic Quinn
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