Pereunt Et Imputantur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEE FGFGHH IJIJKK LMLMNN| After Martial | A |
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| Bernard if to you and me | B |
| Fortune all at once should give | C |
| Years to spend secure and free | B |
| With the choice of how to live | D |
| Tell me what should we proclaim | E |
| Life deserving of the name | E |
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| Winning some one else's case | F |
| Saving some one else's seat | G |
| Hearing with a solemn face | F |
| People of importance bleat | G |
| No I think we should not still | H |
| Waste our time at others' will | H |
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| Summer noons beneath the limes | I |
| Summer rides at evening cool | J |
| Winter's tales and home made rhymes | I |
| Figures on the frozen pool | J |
| These would we for labours take | K |
| And of these our business make | K |
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| Ah but neither you nor I | L |
| Dare in earnest venture so | M |
| Still we let the good days die | L |
| And to swell the reckoning go | M |
| What are those that know the way | N |
| Yet to walk therein delay | N |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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