Shortened Lives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EECF GGHG| To us it seemed his life was too soon done | A |
| Ended indeed while scarcely yet begun | A |
| God with His clearer vision saw that he | B |
| Was ready for a larger ministry | B |
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| Just so we thought of Him whose life below | C |
| Was so full charged with bitterness and woe | C |
| Our clouded vision would have crowned Him King | D |
| He chose the lowly way of suffering | D |
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| Remember too how short His life on earth | E |
| But three and thirty years 'twixt death and birth | E |
| And of those years but three whereof we know | C |
| Yet those three years immortal seed did sow | F |
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| It is not tale of years that tells the whole | G |
| Of Man's success or failure but the soul | G |
| He brings to them the songs he sings to them | H |
| The steadfast gaze he fixes on the goal | G |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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