To You Who Have Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCD EEFGFGG HHHDDEIIJK| I know I know | A |
| The ceaseless ache the emptiness the woe | A |
| The pang of loss | B |
| The strength that sinks beneath so sore a cross | B |
| Heedless and careless still the world wags on | C |
| And leaves me broken Oh my son my son | D |
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| Yet think of this | E |
| Yea rather think on this | E |
| He died as few men get the chance to die | F |
| Fighting to save a world's morality | G |
| He died the noblest death a man may die | F |
| Fighting for God and Right and Liberty | G |
| And such a death is Immortality | G |
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| He died unnoticed in the muddy trench | H |
| Nay God was with him and he did not blench | H |
| Filled him with holy fires that nought could quench | H |
| And when He saw his work below was done | D |
| He gently called to him My son My son | D |
| I need thee for a greater work than this | E |
| Thy faith thy zeal thy fine activities | I |
| Are worthy of My larger liberties | I |
| Then drew him with the hand of welcoming grace | J |
| And side by side they climbed the heavenly ways | K |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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