Lines In Memory Of William Leggett Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| The earth may ring from shore to shore | A |
| With echoes of a glorious name | B |
| But he whose loss our tears deplore | A |
| Has left behind him more than fame | B |
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| For when the death frost came to lie | C |
| On Leggett's warm and mighty heart | D |
| And quenched his bold and friendly eye | C |
| His spirit did not all depart | D |
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| The words of fire that from his pen | E |
| Were flung upon the fervent page | F |
| Still move still shake the hearts of men | E |
| Amid a cold and coward age | F |
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| His love of truth too warm too strong | G |
| For Hope or Fear to chain or chill | H |
| His hate of tyranny and wrong | G |
| Burn in the breasts he kindled still | H |
William Cullen Bryant
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