The Union Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI BJBJ| You that have gathered together the sons of all races | A |
| And welded them into one | B |
| Lifting the torch of your Freedom on hungering faces | A |
| That sailed to the setting sun | B |
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| You that have made of mankind in your own proud regions | C |
| The music of man to be | D |
| How should the old earth sing of you now as your legions | C |
| Rise to set all men free | D |
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| How should the singer that knew the proud vision and loved it | E |
| In the days when not all men knew | F |
| Gaze through his tears on the light now the world has approved it | E |
| Or dream when the dream comes true | F |
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| How should he sing when the Spirit of Freedom in thunder | G |
| Speaks and the wine press is red | H |
| And the sea winds are loud with the chains that are broken asunder | G |
| And nations that rise from the dead | H |
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| Flag of the sky proud flag of that wide communion | B |
| Too mighty for thought to scan | I |
| Flag of the many in one and that last world union | B |
| That kingdom of God in man | I |
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| Ours was a dream in the night of that last federation | B |
| But yours is the glory unfurled | J |
| The marshalled nations and stars that shall make one nation | B |
| One singing star of the world | J |
Alfred Noyes
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