To Arms! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFEFB AGHGHIJKJA BLMLMGNGNB ACOCONPNPA ABQRQRSTSTBA ATUTUGHGH| World to arms | A |
| Do you shrink | B |
| What shrink when the hoofs of the Cossack are crushing | C |
| The bosom of mother the tonsure of priest | D |
| And the youth of a nation pain maddened is rushing | C |
| On visible doom as to tourney or feast | D |
| When the savagest hell hounds that ever existed | E |
| Are hunting the tender and brave of our race | F |
| And the lash of the insolent Tartar is twisted | E |
| With mock of defiance and cracked in your face | F |
| Do you shrink | B |
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| World to arms | A |
| Do you shrink gallant France when the blood of a nation | G |
| Ne'er stinted for you for itself flows in vain | H |
| Aroused by the might of a grand inspiration | G |
| Avenge with your war clang the souls of the slain | H |
| If you shrink may you never know ending or respite | I |
| To strife internecine and factional hate | J |
| Except when the hand of liberticide despot | K |
| Imposes on all one opprobrious fate | J |
| France to arms | A |
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| Do you shrink | B |
| You politic Austria now that you only | L |
| If feebly you hesitate hasten your doom | M |
| Have you yet not discovered that selfish and lonely | L |
| An Empire but marches blindfold to the tomb | M |
| Let a penitent sword in sublime vindication | G |
| Of Freedom its manifold mischiefs undo | N |
| If you shrink may the multiplied wrongs of each nation | G |
| You ever have outraged be hurled back on you | N |
| Do you shrink | B |
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| World to arms | A |
| O my beautiful Italy nought of misgiving | C |
| Doth trouble the summons that touches your pride | O |
| The graves of your slaughtered are fresh but your living | C |
| Are throbbing to conquer or sleep at their side | O |
| By your maidens equipped in whose beauty exult you | N |
| Your sons must make ready with pennon and sheen | P |
| To go straight If you shrink but I will not insult you | N |
| Who often unfortunate never were mean | P |
| Then to arms | A |
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| World to arms | A |
| Do you shrink | B |
| Shrink England what shrink when intoxicate Tartar | Q |
| Deriding your wrath rides in blood to the waist | R |
| When the flesh of the virgin the bones of the martyr | Q |
| The breast of the matron are bared and defaced | R |
| Do you deem diplomatic frivolities ample | S |
| To save you your title of moral and just | T |
| When a horde of ensanguined barbarians trample | S |
| Mankind and remonstrance alike in the dust | T |
| England shrink | B |
| No to arms | A |
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| All to arms | A |
| Will you wait till behind the impassable rampart | T |
| Of winter they laugh at your impotent rage | U |
| And your war nostrils frozen your ironclads hampered | T |
| Destruction then Order'' shall swoop on the stage | U |
| Yes the spring will come back and unbar you the ocean | G |
| But will not the sinews relax of the slain | H |
| Swift to arms Set the vengeance charged tumbrils in motion | G |
| As dread as God's thunder as blest as His rain | H |
Alfred Austin
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