A Royal Home-coming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IFIF JKJK LMLM NCNC OFOF PQRQ STST MUMV| Welcome right welcome home to these blest Isles | A |
| Where unforgotten loved Victoria sleeps | B |
| But now with happy pride your Father smiles | A |
| Your Mother weeps | B |
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| You went as came the swallow homeward draw | C |
| Now it hath winged its way to winters green | D |
| But never swallow or wandering sea bird saw | C |
| What You have seen | D |
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| For You have circled the earth with pinions fleet | E |
| The seasons through and everywhere a throng | F |
| Of glowing hearts your coming trooped to greet | E |
| With flowers and song | F |
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| Over the unchanging sea eight changeful moons | G |
| Have moved from shield to sickle seed to sheaves | H |
| And twice a hundred dawns a hundred noons | G |
| A hundred eves | H |
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| Waned to their slumber in the star lit night | I |
| And ever from land or lake from wave or crag | F |
| From fixed or floating fort You had in sight | I |
| The British Flag | F |
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| And wider further onward round the world | J |
| Scouring the field or furrowing the sea | K |
| You found that Emblem which where'er unfurled | J |
| Floats o'er the Free | K |
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| So that on man and man's laborious hand | L |
| Nor manacle nor hindrance shall be laid | M |
| But mind with mind and strand with generous strand | L |
| Contend and trade | M |
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| And though the shade of treasonable strife | N |
| Falls on our homes and theirs You wandering saw | C |
| Young Commonwealths You found surging with life | N |
| Yet ruled by Law | C |
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| Whose blood infused in ours in War's emprise | O |
| To vindicate one Sceptre sword and tongue | F |
| As ours perchance may help to keep them wise | O |
| Hath made us young | F |
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| Fountain of Youth England in mellower years | P |
| Hath found and drained so that She ne'er need know | Q |
| What Nature feels when Autumn stacks and seres | R |
| Or Yule gusts blow | Q |
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| You sailed from us to them from them to us | S |
| Love at the prow and wisdom at the helm | T |
| August Ambassadors who strengthen thus | S |
| Her Rule and Realm | T |
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| Round You to day a People stand arrayed | M |
| That fain with Peace two wedded worlds would dower | U |
| Therefore rejoicing mightier hath been made | M |
| Imperial Power | V |
Alfred Austin
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