The Martyr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CDED FACA EGHG HIJI KAEA BLAL MNON HPQP NHFH NACA RSHS AHRH ATUT NVCV QWXW HYHY ZA2EA2 HHNH HB2AC2 AD2FD2Not only on cross and gibbet | A |
By sword and fire and flood | A |
Have perished the world s sad martyrs | B |
Whose names are writ in blood | A |
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A woman lay in a hovel | C |
Mean dismal gasping for breath | D |
One friend alone was beside her | E |
The name of him was Death | D |
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For the sake of her orphan children | F |
For money to buy them food | A |
She had slaved in the dismal hovel | C |
And wasted her womanhood | A |
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Winter and Spring and Summer | E |
Came each with a load of cares | G |
And Autumn to her brought only | H |
A harvest of gray hairs | G |
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Far out in the bless d country | H |
Beyond the smoky town | I |
The winds of God were blowing | J |
Evermore up and down | I |
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The trees were waving signals | K |
Of joy from the bush beyond | A |
The gum its blue green banner | E |
The fern its dark green frond | A |
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Flower called to flower in whispers | B |
By sweet caressing names | L |
And young gum shoots sprang upward | A |
Like woodland altar flames | L |
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And deep in the distant ranges | M |
The magpie s fluting song | N |
Roused musical mocking echoes | O |
In the woods of Dandenong | N |
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And riders were galloping gaily | H |
With loose held flowing reins | P |
Through dim and shadowy gullies | Q |
Across broad treeless plains | P |
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And winds through the Heads came wafting | N |
A breath of life from the sea | H |
And over the blue horizon | F |
The ships sailed silently | H |
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And out of the sea at morning | N |
The sun rose golden bright | A |
And in crimson and gold and purple | C |
Sank in the sea at night | A |
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But in dreams alone she saw them | R |
Her hours of toil between | S |
For life to her was only | H |
A heartless dead machine | S |
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Her heart was in the graveyard | A |
Where lay her children three | H |
Nor work nor prayer could save them | R |
Nor tears of agony | H |
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On the lips of her last and dearest | A |
Pressing a farewell kiss | T |
She cried aloud in her anguish | U |
Can God make amends for this | T |
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Dull desperate ceaseless slaving | N |
Bereft her of power to pray | V |
And Man was careless and cruel | C |
And God was far away | V |
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But who shall measure His mercies | Q |
His ways are in the deep | W |
And after a life of sorrow | X |
He gave her His gift of sleep | W |
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Rest comes at last to the weary | H |
And freedom to the slave | Y |
Her tired and worn out body | H |
Sleeps well in its pauper grave | Y |
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But His angel bore her soul up | Z |
To that Bright Land and Fair | A2 |
Where Sorrow enters never | E |
Nor any cloud of Care | A2 |
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They came to a lovely valley | H |
Agleam with asphodel | H |
And the soul of the woman speaking | N |
Said Here I fain would dwell | H |
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The Angel answered gently | H |
O Soul most pure and dear | B2 |
O Soul most tried and truest | A |
They dwelling is not here | C2 |
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Behold thy place appointed | A |
Long kept long waiting come | D2 |
Where bloom on the hills of heaven | F |
The roses of Martyrdom | D2 |
Victor James Daley
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