Opening Of The Indian And Colonial Exhibition By The Queen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDEFGHHII JJKKLL II MMNNOOPPII Q RRSSTTUU I

WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THEA
PRINCE OF WALESB
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Welcome welcome with one voiceC
In your welfare we rejoiceC
Sons and brothers that have sentD
From isle and cape and continentE
Produce of your field and floodF
Mount and mine and primal woodG
Works of subtle brain and handH
And splendors of the morning landH
Gifts from every British zoneI
Britons hold your ownI
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May we find as ages runJ
The mother featured in the sonJ
And may yours for ever beK
That old strength and constancyK
Which has made your fathers greatL
In our ancient island StateL
And wherever her flag fly-
Glorying between sea and sky-
Makes the might of Britain knownI
Britons hold your ownI
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III-
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Britain fought her sons of yoreM
Britain fail'd and never moreM
Careless of our growing kinN
Shall we sin our father's sinN
Men that in a narrower dayO
Unprophetic rulers theyO
Drove from out the mother's nestP
That young eagle of the WestP
To forage for herself aloneI
Britons hold your ownI
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Sharers of our glorious pastR
Brothers must we part at lastR
Shall we not thro' good and illS
Cleave to one another stillS
Britain's myriad voices callT
'Sons be welded each and allT
Into one imperial wholeU
One with Britain heart and soulU
One life one flag one fleet one throne '-
Britons hold your ownI

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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