The Eagle That Is Forgotten Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BB CCCC DDEF GHIIJJ BBKKK| John P Altgeld Born Dec died March | A |
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| Sleep softly eagle forgotten under the stone | B |
| Time has its way with you there and the clay has its own | B |
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| We have buried him now thought your foes and in secret rejoiced | C |
| They made a brave show of their mourning their hatred unvoiced | C |
| They had snarled at you barked at you foamed at you day after day | C |
| Now you were ended They praised you and laid you away | C |
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| The others that mourned you in silence and terror and truth | D |
| The widow bereft of her crust and the boy without youth | D |
| The mocked and the scorned and the wounded the lame and the poor | E |
| That should have remembered forever remember no more | F |
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| Where are those lovers of yours on what name do they call | G |
| The lost that in armies wept over your funeral pall | H |
| They call on the names of a hundred high valiant ones | I |
| A hundred white eagles have risen the sons of your sons | I |
| The zeal in their wings is a zeal that your dreaming began | J |
| The valor that wore out your soul in the service of man | J |
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| Sleep softly eagle forgotten under the stone | B |
| Time has its way with you there and the clay has its own | B |
| Sleep on O brave hearted O wise man that kindled the flame | K |
| To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name | K |
| To live in mankind far far more than to live in a name | K |
Vachel Lindsay
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