England Cxvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDEDEEE FDGDHD IJKJJGLJLML HNDNON JJPJGJGQJQRQ AAAADA| England queen of the waves whose green inviolate girdle enrings thee | A |
| round | B |
| Mother fair as the morning where is now the place of thy foemen found | B |
| Still the sea that salutes us free proclaims them stricken acclaims | C |
| thee crowned | B |
| Time may change and the skies grow strange with signs of treason and | D |
| fraud and fear | E |
| Foes in union of strange communion may rise against thee from far and | D |
| near | E |
| Sloth and greed on thy strength may feed as cankers waxing from year | E |
| to year | E |
| - | |
| Yet though treason and fierce unreason should league and lie and defame | F |
| and smite | D |
| We that know thee how far below thee the hatred burns of the sons of | G |
| night | D |
| We that love thee behold above thee the witness written of life in | H |
| light | D |
| - | |
| Life that shines from thee shows forth signs that none may read not by | I |
| eyeless foes | J |
| Hate born blind in his abject mind grows hopeful now but as madness | K |
| grows | J |
| Love born wise with exultant eyes adores thy glory beholds and glows | J |
| Truth is in thee and none may win thee to lie forsaking the face of | G |
| truth | L |
| Freedom lives by the grace she gives thee born again from thy deathless | J |
| youth | L |
| Faith should fail and the world turn pale wert thou the prey of the | M |
| serpent's tooth | L |
| - | |
| Greed and fraud unabashed unawed may strive to sting thee at heel in | H |
| vain | N |
| Craft and fear and mistrust may leer and mourn and murmur and plead and | D |
| plain | N |
| Thou art thou and thy sunbright brow is hers that blasted the strength | O |
| of Spain | N |
| - | |
| Mother mother beloved none other could claim in place of thee England's | J |
| place | J |
| Earth bears none that beholds the sun so pure of record so clothed with | P |
| grace | J |
| Dear our mother nor son nor brother is thine as strong or as fair of | G |
| face | J |
| How shalt thou be abased or how shalt fear take hold of thy heart of | G |
| thine | Q |
| England maiden immortal laden with charge of life and with hopes | J |
| divine | Q |
| Earth shall wither when eyes turned hither behold not light in her | R |
| darkness shine | Q |
| - | |
| England none that is born thy son and lives by grace of thy glory | A |
| free | A |
| Lives and yearns not at heart and burns with hope to serve as he | A |
| worships thee | A |
| None may sing thee the sea wind's wing beats down our songs as it | D |
| hails the sea | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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