All For The Cause Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE DFGF HIJI KLMN OPCP MQOQ COHO DRHR STUV WDWD DWOW MOUO MXOX OOAO OYUY ABCBHear a word a word in season | A |
for the day is drawing nigh | B |
When the Cause shall call upon us | C |
some to live and some to die | B |
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He that dies shall not die lonely | D |
many an one hath gone before | E |
He that lives shall bear no burden | A |
heavier than the life they bore | E |
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Nothing ancient is their story | D |
e en but yesterday they bled | F |
Youngest they of earth s beloved | G |
last of all the valiant dead | F |
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E en the tidings we are telling | H |
was the tale they had to tell | I |
E en the hope that our hearts cherish | J |
was the hope for which they fell | I |
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In the grave where tyrants thrust them | K |
lies their labour and their pain | L |
But undying from their sorrow | M |
springeth up the hope again | N |
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Mourn not therefore nor lament it | O |
that the world outlives their life | P |
Voice and vision yet they give us | C |
making strong our hands for strife | P |
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Some had name and fame and honour | M |
learn d they were and wise and strong | Q |
Some were nameless poor unlettered | O |
weak in all but grief and wrong | Q |
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Named and nameless all live in us | C |
one and all they lead us yet | O |
Every pain to count for nothing | H |
every sorrow to forget | O |
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Hearken how they cry O happy | D |
happy ye that ye were born | R |
In the sad slow night s departing | H |
in the rising of the morn | R |
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Fair the crown the Cause hath for you | S |
well to die or well to live | T |
Through the battle through the tangle | U |
peace to gain or peace to give | V |
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Ah it may be Oft meseemeth | W |
in the days that yet shall be | D |
When no slave of gold abideth | W |
twixt the breadth of sea to sea | D |
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Oft when men and maids are merry | D |
ere the sunlight leaves the earth | W |
And they bless the day beloved | O |
all too short for all their mirth | W |
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Some shall pause awhile and ponder | M |
on the bitter days of old | O |
Ere the toil of strife and battle | U |
overthrew the curse of gold | O |
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Then twixt lips of loved and lover | M |
solemn thoughts of us shall rise | X |
We who once were fools defeated | O |
then shall be the brave and wise | X |
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There amidst the world new builded | O |
shall our earthly deeds abide | O |
Though our names be all forgotten | A |
and the tale of how we died | O |
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Life or death then who shall heed it | O |
what we gain or what we lose | Y |
Fair flies life amid the struggle | U |
and the Cause for each shall choose | Y |
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Hear a word a word in season | A |
for the day is drawing nigh | B |
When the Cause shall call upon us | C |
some to live and some to die | B |
William Morris
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