To Arms! (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFA HEHEIJIKFGFG LMLMNONOFGF PQPQRSRSFGFG| Now let the cry To Arms To Arms '' | A |
| Go ringing round the world | B |
| And swift a wave wide Empire swarms | C |
| Round Battleflag unfurled | B |
| Wherever glitters Britain's might | D |
| Or Britain's banner flies | E |
| Leap up mailed myriads with the light | D |
| Of manhood in their eyes | E |
| Calling from farmstead mart and strand | F |
| We come And we And we | G |
| That British steel may hold the land | F |
| And British keels the sea '' | A |
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| From English hamlet Irish hill | H |
| Welsh hearths and Scottish byres | E |
| They throng to show that they are still | H |
| Sons worthy of their sires | E |
| That what these did we still can do | I |
| That what they were we are | J |
| Whose fathers fought at Waterloo | I |
| And died at Trafalgar | K |
| Shoulder to shoulder see them stand | F |
| Wherever menace be | G |
| To guard the lordship of the land | F |
| And the Trident of the sea | G |
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| Nor in the parent Isle alone | L |
| Spring squadrons from the ground | M |
| Canadian shore and Austral zone | L |
| With kindred cry resound | M |
| From shimmering plain and snow fed stream | N |
| Across the deep we come | O |
| Seeing the British bayonets gleam | N |
| Hearing the British drum | O |
| Foot in the stirrup hilt in hand | F |
| Free men to keep men free | G |
| All all will help to hold the land | F |
| While England guards the sea '' | - |
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| Comrades in arms from every shore | P |
| Where thundereth the main | Q |
| On to the front they press and pour | P |
| To face the rifles' rain | Q |
| To force the foe from covert crag | R |
| And chase them till they fall | S |
| Then plant for ever England's Flag | R |
| Upon the rebel wall | S |
| What Wrench the Sceptre from her hand | F |
| And bid her bow the knee | G |
| Not while her Yeomen guard the land | F |
| And her ironclads the sea | G |
Alfred Austin
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