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The Commonweal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
Eight hundred years and twenty one	B
Have shone and sunken since the land	C
Whose name is freedom bore such brand	C
As marks a captive and the sun	B
Beheld her fettered hand	C
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II	A
But ere dark time had shed as rain	D
Or sown on sterile earth as seed	E
That bears no fruit save tare and weed	E
An age and half an age again	F
She rose on Runnymede	E
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III	A
Out of the shadow starlike still	G
She rose up radiant in her right	E
And spake and put to fear and flight	E
The lawless rule of awless will	G
That pleads no right save might	E
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IV	-
Nor since hath England ever borne	H
The burden laid on subject lands	I
The rule that curbs and binds all hands	I
Save one and marks for servile scorn	H
The heads it bows and brands	I
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V	-
A commonweal arrayed and crowned	E
With gold and purple girt with steel	J
At need that foes must fear or feel	J
We find her as our fathers found	E
Earth's lordliest commonweal	J
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VI	-
And now that fifty years are flown	K
Since in a maiden's hand the sign	L
Of empire that no seas confine	L
First as a star to seaward shone	K
We see their record shine	L
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VII	-
A troubled record foul and fair	M
A simple record and serene	N
Inscribes for praise a blameless queen	N
For praise and blame an age of care	M
And change and ends unseen	N
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VIII	-
Hope wide of eye and wild of wing	O
Rose with the sundawn of a reign	D
Whose grace should make the rough ways plain	D
And fill the worn old world with spring	O
And heal its heart of pain	D
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IX	I
Peace was to be on earth men's hope	P
Was holier than their fathers had	E
Their wisdom not more wise than glad	E
They saw the gates of promise ope	P
And heard what love's lips bade	E
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X	I
Love armed with knowledge winged and wise	I
Should hush the wind of war and see	I
They said the sun of days to be	I
Bring round beneath serener skies	I
A stormless jubilee	I
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XI	I
Time in the darkness unbeholden	D
That hides him from the sight of fear	Q
And lets but dreaming hope draw near	Q
Smiled and was sad to hear such golden	D
Strains hail the all golden year	Q
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XII	I
Strange clouds have risen between and wild	E
Red stars of storm that lit the abyss	I
Wherein fierce fraud and violence kiss	I
And mock such promise as beguiled	E
The fiftieth year from this	I
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XIII	I
War upon war change after change	R
Hath shaken thrones and towers to dust	E
And hopes austere and faiths august	E
Have watched in patience stern and strange	R
Men's works unjust and just	E
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XIV	-
As from some Alpine watch tower's portal	J
Night living yet looks forth for dawn	D
So from time's mistier mountain lawn	D
The spirit of man in trust immortal	J
Yearns toward a hope withdrawn	D
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XV	-
The morning comes not yet the night	E
Wanes and men's eyes win strength to see	I
Where twilight is where light shall be	I
When conquered wrong and conquering right	E
Acclaim a world set free	I
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XVI	-
Calm as our mother land the mother	S
Of faith and freedom pure and wise	I
Keeps watch beneath unchangeful skies	I
When hath she watched the woes of other	S
Strange lands with alien eyes	I
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XVII	-
Calm as she stands alone what nation	D
Hath lacked an alms from English hands	I
What exiles from what stricken lands	I
Have lacked the shelter of the station	D
Where higher than all she stands	I
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XVIII	-
Though time discrown and change dismantle	J
The pride of thrones and towers that frown	D
How should they bring her glories down	D
The sea cast round her like a mantle	J
The sea cloud like a crown	D
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XIX	I
The sea divine as heaven and deathless	I
Is hers and none but only she	I
Hath learnt the sea's word none but we	I
Her children hear in heart the breathless	I
Bright watchword of the sea	I
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XX	I
Heard not of others or misheard	E
Of many a land for many a year	Q
The watchword Freedom fails not here	T
Of hearts that witness if the word	E
Find faith in England's ear	T
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XXI	I
She first to love the light and daughter	S
Incarnate of the northern dawn	D
She round whose feet the wild waves fawn	D
When all their wrath of warring water	S
Sounds like a babe's breath drawn	D
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XXII	I
How should not she best know love best	E
And best of all souls understand	E
The very soul of freedom scanned	E
Far off sought out in darkling quest	E
By men at heart unmanned	E
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XXIII	I
They climb and fall ensnared enshrouded	E
By mists of words and toils they set	E
To take themselves till fierce regret	E
Grows mad with shame and all their clouded	E
Red skies hang sunless yet	E
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XXIV	-
But us the sun not wholly risen	D
Nor equal now for all illumes	I
With more of light than cloud that looms	I
Of light that leads forth souls from prison	D
And breaks the seals of tombs	I
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XXV	-
Did not her breasts who reared us rear	Q
Him who took heaven in hand and weighed	E
Bright world with world in balance laid	E
What Newton's might could make not clear	Q
Hath Darwin's might not made	E
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XXVI	-
The forces of the dark dissolve	-
The doorways of the dark are broken	D
The word that casts out night is spoken	D
And whence the springs of things evolve	-
Light born of night bears token	D
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XXVII	-
She loving light for light's sake only	I
And truth for only truth's and song	U
For song's sake and the sea's how long	U
Hath she not borne the world her lonely	I
Witness of right and wrong	U
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XXVIII	-
From light to light her eyes imperial	J
Turn and require the further light	E
More perfect than the sun's in sight	E
Till star and sun seem all funereal	J
Lamps of the vaulted night	E
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XXIX	I
She gazes till the strenuous soul	J
Within the rapture of her eyes	I
Creates or bids awake arise	I
The light she looks for pure and whole	J
And worshipped of the wise	I
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XXX	I
Such sons are hers such radiant hands	I
Have borne abroad her lamp of old	E
Such mouths of honey dropping gold	E
Have sent across all seas and lands	I
Her fame as music rolled	E
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XXXI	I
As music made of rolling thunder	S
That hurls through heaven its heart sublime	V
Its heart of joy in charging chime	V
So ring the songs that round and under	S
Her temple surge and climb	V
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XXXII	I
A temple not by men's hands builded	E
But moulded of the spirit and wrought	E
Of passion and imperious thought	E
With light beyond all sunlight gilded	E
Whereby the sun seems nought	E
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XXXIII	I
Thy shrine our mother seen for fairer	S
Than even thy natural face made fair	M
With kisses of thine April air	M
Even now when spring thy banner bearer	S
Took up thy sign to bear	M
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XXXIV	-
Thine annual sign from heaven's own arch	W
Given of the sun's hand into thine	D
To rear and cheer each wildwood shrine	D
But now laid waste by wild winged March	W
March mad with wind like wine	D
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XXXV	-
From all thy brightening downs whereon	D
The windy seaward whin flower shows	I
Blossom whose pride strikes pale the rose	I
Forth is the golden watchword gone	D
Whereat the world's face glows	I
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XXXVI	-
Thy quickening woods rejoice and ring	O
Till earth seems glorious as the sea	I
With yearning love too glad for glee	I
The world's heart quivers toward the spring	O
As all our hearts toward thee	I
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XXXVII	-
Thee mother thee our queen who givest	E
Assurance to the heavens most high	-
And earth whereon her bondsmen sigh	-
That by the sea's grace while thou livest	E
Hope shall not wholly die	E
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XXXVIII	-
That while thy free folk hold the van	D
Of all men and the sea spray shed	E
As dew more heavenly on thy head	E
Keeps bright thy face in sight of man	D
Man's pride shall drop not dead	E
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XXXIX	I
A pride more pure than humblest prayer	M
More wise than wisdom born of doubt	E
Girds for thy sake men's hearts about	E
With trust and triumph that despair	M
And fear may cast not out	E
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XL	I
Despair may wring men's hearts and fear	Q
Bow down their heads to kiss the dust	E
Where patriot memories rot and rust	E
And change makes faint a nation's cheer	Q
And faith yields up her trust	E
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XLI	I
Not here this year have true men known	D
Not here this year may true men know	D
That brand of shame compelling woe	D
Which bids but brave men shrink or groan	D
And lays but honour low	D
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XLII	D
The strong spring wind blows notes of praise	I
And hallowing pride of heart and cheer	Q
Unchanging toward all true men here	T
Who hold the trust of ancient days	I
High as of old this year	Q
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XLIII	D
The days that made thee great are dead	E
The days that now must keep thee great	E
Lie not in keeping of thy fate	E
In thine they lie whose heart and head	E
Sustain thy charge of state	E
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XLIV	-
No state so proud no pride so just	E
The sun through clouds at sunrise curled	E
Or clouds across the sunset whirled	E
Hath sight of nor has man such trust	E
As thine in all the world	E
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XLV	-
Each hour that sees the sunset's crest	E
Make bright thy shores ere day decline	D
Sees dawn the sun on shores of thine	D
Sees west as east and east as west	E
On thee their sovereign shine	D
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XLVI	-
The sea's own heart must needs wax proud	E
To have borne the world a child like thee	I
What birth of earth might ever be	I
Thy sister Time a wandering cloud	E
Is sunshine on thy sea	I
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XLVII	-
Change mars not her and thee our mother	S
What change that irks or moves thee mars	I
What shock that shakes what chance that jars	I
Time gave thee as he gave none other	S
A station like a star's	I
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XLVIII	-
The storm that shrieks the wind that wages	I
War with the wings of hopes that climb	V
Too high toward heaven in doubt sublime	V
Assail not thee approved of ages	I
The towering crown of time	V
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XLIX	I
Toward thee this year thy children turning	O
With souls uplift of changeless cheer	Q
Salute with love that casts out fear	Q
With hearts for beacons round thee burning	O
The token of this year	Q
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L	D
With just and sacred jubilation	D
Let earth sound answer to the sea	I
For witness blown on winds as free	I
How England how her crowning nation	D
Acclaims this jubilee	I