Alfred-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFF GHHIHHEJF HKHEFFBBBLFF FEFFEFEFMFJJHJKFFN EBBBHHEHFBFBHHHEIBHF| In the Beginning when out of darkness | A |
| The Earth the Heaven | B |
| The stars the seasons | C |
| The mighty mainland | D |
| And whale ploughed water | E |
| By God the Maker | E |
| Were formed and fashioned | F |
| Then God made England | F |
| - | |
| He made it shapely | G |
| With land locked inlets | H |
| And gray green nesses | H |
| With rivers roaming | I |
| From fair leafed forests | H |
| Through windless valleys | H |
| Past plain and pasture | E |
| To sloping shingle | J |
| Thus God made England | F |
| - | |
| Then like to the long backed bounding billows | H |
| That foam and follow | K |
| In rolling ridges | H |
| Before and after | E |
| To bluff and headland | F |
| Hither there tided | F |
| The loose limbed Briton | B |
| The lording Roman | B |
| And strong on his oars the sea borne Saxon | B |
| And now the Norsemen | L |
| Who hard with Alfred | F |
| Wrestle for England | F |
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| But onward and forward | F |
| In far days fairer | E |
| I see this England | F |
| Made one and mighty | F |
| Mighty and master | E |
| Of all within it | F |
| Mighty and master | E |
| Of men high seated | F |
| Of free necked labour | M |
| Lowland and upland | F |
| And corn and cattle | J |
| And ploughland peaceful | J |
| Of happy homesteads | H |
| That warmly nestle | J |
| In holt and hollow | K |
| This is the England | F |
| In fair days forward | F |
| I see and sing of | N |
| - | |
| Then mighty and master of all within her | E |
| Of Celt and Briton | B |
| Angle and Frisian | B |
| Saxon and Norseman | B |
| Shall England plough like the whale and walrus | H |
| The roaring ridges | H |
| Of foam necked water | E |
| With long oared warships | H |
| And keels high beak d | F |
| And never a foeman | B |
| Eastward or westward | F |
| Shall dare to raven | B |
| Her salt sea inlets | H |
| Her grim gray nesses | H |
| But swift at the sight of her rearing cradles | H |
| Shall scud and scatter | E |
| Like wild geese fleeing | I |
| 'Twixt wave and welkin | B |
| Away from the dread of the shrilling weapons | H |
| Of foam fenced England | F |
Alfred Austin
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