The Buried Chief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJIJ GGKG| November th | A |
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| With speechless lips and solemn tread | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp They brought the Lawyer Statesman home | C |
| They laid him with the gather'd dead | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where rich and poor like brothers come | D |
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| How bravely did the stripling climb | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From step to step the rugged hill | F |
| His gaze thro' that benighted time | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fix'd on the far off beacon still | F |
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| He faced the storm that o'er him burst | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With pride to match the proudest born | H |
| He bore unblench'd Detraction's worst | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Paid blow for blow and scorn for scorn | H |
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| He scaled the summit while the sun | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Yet shone upon his conquer'd track | J |
| Nor falter'd till the goal was won | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nor struggling upward once look'd back | J |
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| But what avails the quot pride of place quot | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Or winged chariot rolling past | G |
| He heeds not now who wins the race | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Alike to him the first or last | G |
Sir Henry Parkes
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