The Avenue Of The Allies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BA CCDDEFGGHHIHJJAA KA LLLLMMLLNNJJOOCCCC CC PPPPLLLLCCPPQQEECCPP RRPPCCCCSSAA BA PPTTUUVVAAPPCCKKPPWW PW| This is the song of the wind as it came | A |
| Tossing the flags of the nations to flame | A |
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| I am the breath of God I am His laughter | B |
| I am His Liberty That is my name | A |
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| So it descended at night on the city | C |
| So it went lavishing beauty and pity | C |
| Lighting the lordliest street of the world | D |
| With half of the banners that earth has unfurled | D |
| Over the lamps that are brighter than stars | E |
| Laughing aloud on its way to the wars | F |
| Proud as America sweeping along | G |
| Death and destruction like notes in a song | G |
| Leaping to battle as man to his mate | H |
| Joyous as God when he moved to create | H |
| Never was voice of a nation so glorious | I |
| Glad of its cause and afire with its fate | H |
| Never did eagle on mightier pinion | J |
| Tower to the height of a brighter dominion | J |
| Kindling the hope of the prophets to flame | A |
| Calling aloud on the deep as it came | A |
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| Cleave me a way for an army with banners | K |
| I am His Liberty That is my name | A |
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| Know you the meaning of all they are doing | L |
| Know you the light that their soul is pursuing | L |
| Know you the might of the world they are making | L |
| This nation of nations whose heart is awaking | L |
| What is this mingling of peoples and races | M |
| Look at the wonder and joy in their faces | M |
| Look how the folds of the union are spreading | L |
| Look for the nations are come to their wedding | L |
| How shall the folk of our tongue be afraid of it | N |
| England was born of it England was made of it | N |
| Made of this welding of tribes into one | J |
| This marriage of pilgrims that followed the sun | J |
| Briton and Roman and Saxon were drawn | O |
| By winds of this Pentecost out of the dawn | O |
| Westward to make her one people of many | C |
| But here is a union more mighty than any | C |
| Know you the soul of this deep exultation | C |
| Know you the word that goes forth to this nation | C |
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| I am the breath of God I am His Liberty | C |
| Let there be light over all His creation | C |
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| Over this Continent wholly united | P |
| They that were foemen in Europe are plighted | P |
| Here in a league that our blindness and pride | P |
| Doubted and flouted and mocked and denied | P |
| Dawns the Republic the laughing gigantic | L |
| Europe united beyond the Atlantic | L |
| That is America speaking one tongue | L |
| Acting her epics before they are sung | L |
| Driving her rails from the palms to the snow | C |
| Through States that are greater than Emperors know | C |
| Forty eight States that are empires in might | P |
| But ruled by the will of one people tonight | P |
| Nerved as one body with net works of steel | Q |
| Merging their strength in the one Commonweal | Q |
| Brooking no poverty mocking at Mars | E |
| Building their cities to talk with the stars | E |
| Thriving increasing by myriads again | C |
| Till even in numbers old Europe may wane | C |
| How shall a son of the England they fought | P |
| Fail to declare the full pride of his thought | P |
| Stand with the scoffers who year after year | R |
| Bring the Republic their half hidden sneer | R |
| Now as in beauty she stands at our side | P |
| Who shall withhold the full gift of his pride | P |
| Not the great England who knows that her son | C |
| Washington fought her and Liberty won | C |
| England whose names like the stars in their station | C |
| Stand at the foot of that world's Declaration | C |
| Washington Livingston Langdon she claims them | S |
| It is her right to be proud when she names them | S |
| Proud of that voice in the night as it came | A |
| Tossing the flags of the nations to flame | A |
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| I am the breath of God I am His laughter | B |
| I am His Liberty That is my name | A |
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| Flags in themselves are but rags that are dyed | P |
| Flags in that wind are like nations enskied | P |
| See how they grapple the night as it rolls | T |
| And trample it under like triumphing souls | T |
| Over the city that never knew sleep | U |
| Look at the riotous folds as they leap | U |
| Thousands of tri colors laughing for France | V |
| Ripple and whisper and thunder and dance | V |
| Thousands of flags for Great Britain aflame | A |
| Answer their sisters in Liberty's name | A |
| Belgium is burning in pride overhead | P |
| Poland is near and her sunrise is red | P |
| Under and over and fluttering between | C |
| Italy burgeons in red white and green | C |
| See how they climb like adventurous flowers | K |
| Over the tops of the terrible towers | K |
| There in the darkness the glories are mated | P |
| There in the darkness a world is created | P |
| There in this Pentecost streaming on high | W |
| There with a glory of stars in the sky | W |
| There the broad flag of our union and liberty | P |
| Rides the proud night wind and tyrannies die | W |
Alfred Noyes
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