The Nameless Graves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHIJ KELE MHNH OHPH| Unnamed at times at times unknown | A |
| Our graves lie thick beyond the seas | B |
| Unnamed but not of Him unknown | A |
| He knows He sees | B |
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| And not one soul has fallen in vain | C |
| Here was no useless sacrifice | D |
| From this red sowing of white seed | E |
| New life shall rise | F |
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| All that for which they fought lives on | G |
| And flourishes triumphantly | H |
| Watered with blood and hopeful tears | I |
| It could not die | J |
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| The world was sinking in a slough | K |
| Of sloth and ease and selfish greed | E |
| God surely sent this scourge to mould | L |
| A nobler creed | E |
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| Birth comes with travail all these woes | M |
| Are birth pangs of the days to be | H |
| Life's noblest things are ever born | N |
| In agony | H |
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| So comfort to the stricken heart | O |
| Take solace in the thought that he | H |
| You mourn was called by God to such | P |
| High dignity | H |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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