The Empty Chair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEE FFCC GGCCHI BB| Wherever is an empty chair | A |
| Lord be Thou there | A |
| And fill it like an answered prayer | A |
| With grace of fragrant thought and rare | A |
| Sweet memories of him whose place | B |
| Thou takest for a little space | B |
| With thought of that heroical | C |
| Great heart that sprang to Duty's call | C |
| With thought of all the best in him | D |
| That Time shall have no power to dim | D |
| With thought of Duty nobly done | E |
| And High Eternal Welfare won | E |
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| Think Would you wish that he had stayed | F |
| When all the rest The Call obeyed | F |
| That thought of self had held in thrall | C |
| His soul and shrunk it mean and small | C |
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| Nay rather thank the Lord that he | G |
| Rose to such height of chivalry | G |
| That with the need his loyal soul | C |
| Swung like a needle to its pole | C |
| That setting duty first he went | H |
| At once as to a sacrament | I |
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| So Lord we thank Thee for Thy Grace | B |
| And pray Thee fill his vacant place | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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