In Hospital - Xv - 'the Chief' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCCD| His brow spreads large and placid and his eye | A |
| Is deep and bright with steady looks that still | B |
| Soft lines of tranquil thought his face fulfill | B |
| His face at once benign and proud and shy | A |
| If envy scout if ignorance deny | A |
| His faultless patience his unyielding will | B |
| Beautiful gentleness and splendid skill | B |
| Innumerable gratitudes reply | A |
| His wise rare smile is sweet with certainties | C |
| And seems in all his patients to compel | D |
| Such love and faith as failure cannot quell | D |
| We hold him for another Herakles | C |
| Battling with custom prejudice disease | C |
| As once the son of Zeus with Death and Hell | D |
William Ernest Henley
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