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 ABCB| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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