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In Due Season

John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)

If night should come and find me at my toil,
 When all Life's day I had, tho' faintly, wrought,
And shallow furrows, cleft in stony soil
 Were all my labour:  Shall I count it naught

If only one poor gleaner, weak of hand,
 Shall pick a scanty sheaf where I have sown?
"Nay, for of thee the Master doth demand
 Thy work:  the harvest rests with Him alone."

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 357
Words 71
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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John McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. more…

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