Jacobite Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADEFEEFEFFGHIIGH GJGGJGJJKLMMKLNONNON OOAPGGAPKQKKQKQQABKK AD| Now who will speak and lie not | A |
| And pledge not life but give | B |
| Slaves herd with herded cattle | C |
| The dawn grows bright for battle | C |
| And if we die we die not | A |
| And if we live we live | D |
| The faith our fathers fought for | E |
| The kings our fathers knew | F |
| We fight but as they fought for | E |
| We seek the goal they sought for | E |
| The chance they hailed and knew | F |
| The praise they strove and wrought for | E |
| To leave their blood as dew | F |
| On fields that flower anew | F |
| Men live that serve the stranger | G |
| Hounds live that huntsmen tame | H |
| These life days of our living | I |
| Are days of God's good giving | I |
| Where death smiles soft on danger | G |
| And life scowls dark on shame | H |
| And what would you do other | G |
| Sweet wife if you were I | J |
| And how should you be other | G |
| My sister than your brother | G |
| If you were man as I | J |
| Born of our sire and mother | G |
| With choice to cower and fly | J |
| And chance to strike and die | J |
| No churl's our oldworld name is | K |
| The lands we leave are fair | L |
| But fairer far than these are | M |
| But wide as all the seas are | M |
| But high as heaven the fame is | K |
| That if we die we share | L |
| Our name the night may swallow | N |
| Our lands the churl may take | O |
| But night nor death may swallow | N |
| Nor hell's nor heaven's dim hollow | N |
| The star whose height we take | O |
| The star whose light we follow | N |
| For faith's unfaltering sake | O |
| Till hope that sleeps awake | O |
| Soft hope's light lure we serve not | A |
| Nor follow fain to find | P |
| Dark time's last word may smite her | G |
| Dead ere man's falsehood blight her | G |
| But though she die we swerve not | A |
| Who cast not eye behind | P |
| Faith speaks when hope dissembles | K |
| Faith lives when hope lies dead | Q |
| If death as life dissembles | K |
| And all that night assembles | K |
| Of stars at dawn lie dead | Q |
| Faint hope that smiles and trembles | K |
| May tell not well for dread | Q |
| But faith has heard it said | Q |
| Now who will fight and fly not | A |
| And grudge not life to give | B |
| And who will strike beside us | K |
| If life's or death's light guide us | K |
| For if we live we die not | A |
| And if we die we live | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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