The Song Of The Standard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD CCC EEE CCC CCC FFF GGG HHH III CCC CCC JJJ CCC

Maiden most beautiful mother most bountiful lady of landsA
Queen and republican crowned of the centuries whose years are thy sandsA
See for thy sake what we bring to thee Italy here in our handsA
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This is the banner thy gonfalon fair in the front of thy fightB
Red from the hearts that were pierced for thee white as thy mountains are whiteB
Green as the spring of thy soul everlasting whose life blood is lightB
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Take to thy bosom thy banner a fair bird fit for the nestC
Feathered for flight into sunrise or sunset for eastward or westC
Fledged for the flight everlasting but held yet warm to thy breastC
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Gather it close to thee song bird or storm bearer eagle or doveD
Lift it to sunward a beacon beneath to the beacon aboveD
Green as our hope in it white as our faith in it red as our loveD
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Thunder and splendour of lightning are hid in the folds of it furledC
Who shall unroll it but thou as thy bolt to be handled and hurledC
Out of whose lips is the honey whose bosom the milk of the worldC
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Out of thine hands hast thou fed us with pasture of colour and songE
Glory and beauty by birthright to thee as thy garments belongE
Out of thine hands thou shalt give us as surely deliverance from wrongE
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Out of thine eyes thou hast shed on us love as a lamp in our nightC
Wisdom a lodestar to ships and remembrance a flame coloured lightC
Out of thine eyes thou shalt shew us as surely the sun dawn of rightC
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Turn to us speak to us Italy mother but once and a wordC
None shall not follow thee none shall not serve thee not one that has heardC
Twice hast thou spoken a message and time is athirst for the thirdC
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Kingdom and empire of peoples thou hadst and thy lordship made oneF
North sea and south sea and east men and west men that look on the sunF
Spirit was in thee and counsel when soul in the nations was noneF
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Banner and beacon thou wast to the centuries of storm wind and foamG
Ages that clashed in the dark with each other and years without homeG
Empress and prophetess wast thou and what wilt thou now be O RomeG
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Ah by the faith and the hope and the love that have need of thee nowH
Shines not thy face with the forethought of freedom and burns not thy browH
Who is against her but all men and who is beside her but thouH
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Art thou not better than all men and where shall she turn but to theeI
Lo not a breath not a beam not a beacon from midland to seaI
Freedom cries out for a sign among nations and none will be freeI
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England in doubt of her France in despair of her all without heartC
Stand on her side in the vanward of ages and strike on her partC
Strike but one stroke for the love of her love of thee sweet that thou artC
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Take in thy right hand thy banner a strong staff fit for thine handC
Forth at the light of it lifted shall foul things flock from the landC
Faster than stars from the sun shall they fly being lighter than sandC
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Green thing to green in the summer makes answer and rose tree to roseJ
Lily by lily the year becomes perfect and none of us knowsJ
What thing is fairest of all things on earth as it brightens and blowsJ
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This thing is fairest in all time of all things in all time is bestC
Freedom that made thee our mother and suckled her sons at thy breastC
Take to thy bosom the nations and there shall the world come to restC

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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