The Transvaal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDEDD| Patience long sick to death is dead Too long | A |
| Have sloth and doubt and treason bidden us be | B |
| What Cromwell's England was not when the sea | B |
| To him bore witness given of Blake how strong | A |
| She stood a commonweal that brooked no wrong | A |
| From foes less vile than men like wolves set free | B |
| Whose war is waged where none may fight or flee | B |
| With women and with weanlings Speech and song | A |
| Lack utterance now for loathing Scarce we hear | C |
| Foul tongues that blacken God's dishonoured name | D |
| With prayers turned curses and with praise found shame | D |
| Defy the truth whose witness now draws near | E |
| To scourge these dogs agape with jaws afoam | D |
| Down out of life Strike England and strike home | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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