If They Dare! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFF GHGIJJJI KLKLGGGL MNMNGGGN OGOGPPPG Q QRSSSR NCNCTTTC| Realm of ocean guarded Peace | A |
| Humming loom and grazing steer | B |
| Farm and forge and woven fleece | A |
| Happier homelier year by year | B |
| Hark athwart the wintry air | C |
| Menace mutters foemen glare | C |
| Leave the shuttle leave the share | C |
| For the spear | B |
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| Envious of her world wide race | D |
| Goaded by the greed and hate | E |
| Of the hungry and the base | D |
| For the opulent and great | E |
| See '' they whisper did we band | F |
| All against Her hand in hand | F |
| We might bring that haughty Land | F |
| Face with Fate '' | - |
| - | |
| Plotters insolent and vain | G |
| Muster then your servile swarms | H |
| Moated by the unbridged main | G |
| We but laugh at such alarms | I |
| Blinded braggarts to forget | J |
| England old is England yet | J |
| And can meet as once She met | J |
| World in arms | I |
| - | |
| Come athwart the ocean's crest | K |
| Mob and Monarch crowd and Crown | L |
| Slavish East or shrilling West | K |
| Come and strike at her renown | L |
| Madmen by your threats inane | G |
| What is it ye hope to gain | G |
| Think of France think of Spain | G |
| Smitten down | L |
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| Derelict on wind and wave | M |
| Tossing with the tossing tide | N |
| Crushed by ice floe tombed in cave | M |
| See the Armada's pomp and pride | N |
| Prince and Pontiff Rome and Spain | G |
| Leagued against Her leagued in vain | G |
| England and her mother main | G |
| Side by side | N |
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| Think of that self sceptered King | O |
| Caesar not by birth but brain | G |
| Who with arbitrary wing | O |
| Hovered over hill and plain | G |
| Headlong from that haughty height | P |
| Forced to sue to England's might | P |
| And accept for eagle's flight | P |
| Cage and chain | G |
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| Still they cry She is alone | Q |
| And must truckle to our nod '' | - |
| What with half the world her own | Q |
| What still wielding Neptune's rod | R |
| She is lonely as the breeze | S |
| Lonely as the stars or seas | S |
| Lone unreachable as these | S |
| Lone as God | R |
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| Let the bandits then deride | N |
| Loneliness they shall not share | C |
| We are lonely unallied | N |
| As the lion in his lair | C |
| Doubters dastards now be dumb | T |
| Sound the clarion Roll the drum | T |
| Let them menace let them come | T |
| If they dare | C |
Alfred Austin
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