The Heritage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGHFG| Cry out on Time that he may take away | A |
| Your cold philosophies that give no hint | B |
| Of spirit quickened flesh fall down and pray | A |
| That Death come never with a face of flint | B |
| Death is our heritage with Life we share | C |
| The sunlight that must own his darkening hour | D |
| Within his very presence yet we dare | C |
| To gather gladness like a fading flower | D |
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| For even as this our joy not long may live | E |
| Perfect and most in change the heart can trace | F |
| The miracle of life and human things | G |
| All we have held to destiny we give | H |
| Dawn glimmers on the soul forsaken face | F |
| Not we but others hear the bird that sings | G |
Siegfried Sassoon
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