Heredity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH| A soldier of the Cromwell stamp | A |
| With sword and psalm book by his side | B |
| At home alike in church and camp | A |
| Austere he lived and smileless died | B |
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| But she a creature soft and fine | C |
| From Spain some say some say from France | D |
| Within her veins leapt blood like wine | C |
| She led her Roundhead lord a dance | D |
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| In Grantham church they lie asleep | E |
| Just where the verger may not know | F |
| Strange that two hundred years should keep | E |
| The old ancestral fires aglow | F |
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| In me these two have met again | G |
| To each my nature owes a part | H |
| To one the cool and reasoning brain | I |
| To one the quick unreasoning heart | H |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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