White Brother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCD EED AAB FFB GGB HHB IJB KKB LLB MMB NOB PPD BQB RRB| Midway between the flaming lines he lay | A |
| A tumbled heap of blood and sweat and clay | A |
| God's son | B |
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| And none could succour him First this one tried | C |
| Then that and then another and they died | C |
| God's sons | D |
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| Those others saw his plight and laughed and jeered | E |
| And at each helper's fall laughed more and cheered | E |
| God's sons | D |
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| So through the torture of an endless day | A |
| In agonies that none could ease he lay | A |
| God's son | B |
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| Then as he wrestled for each hard won breath | F |
| Bleeding his life out craving only death | F |
| God's son | B |
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| Came One in white athwart the fiery hail | G |
| And in His hand a shining cup The Grail | G |
| God's Son | B |
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| He knelt beside him on the reeking ground | H |
| And with a touch soothed each hot throbbing wound | H |
| God's Son | B |
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| Gave him to drink and in his failing ear | I |
| Whispered sweet words of comfort and good cheer | J |
| God's Son | B |
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| The suffering one looked up into the face | K |
| Of Him whose death to sinners brought God's grace | K |
| God's Son | B |
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| The tender brow with unhealed wounds was scarred | L |
| The hand that held The Cup the nails had marred | L |
| God's Son | B |
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| Brother for thee I suffered greater woes | M |
| As I forgave do thou forgive thy foes | M |
| God's son | B |
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| Yea Lord as Thou forgavest I forgive | N |
| And now my soul unto Thyself receive | O |
| God's Son | B |
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| Thick clustered in the battered trench amazed | P |
| They gazed at that strange sight and gazed and gazed | P |
| God's sons | D |
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| The Christ of God come down to succour one | B |
| Of their own number their own mate | Q |
| God's son | B |
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| And none who saw that sight will e'er forget | R |
| How once upon the field of death they met | R |
| God's Son | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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