To-day For Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ACCA ADDA AEEA AFFA AGHA AIIA AIIA| She sitteth still who used to dance | A |
| She weepeth sore and more and more | B |
| Let us sit with thee weeping sore | B |
| O fair France | A |
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| She trembleth as the days advance | A |
| Who used to be so light of heart | C |
| We in thy trembling bear a part | C |
| Sister France | A |
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| Her eyes shine tearful as they glance | A |
| Who shall give back my slaughtered sons | D |
| Bind up she saith my wounded ones | D |
| Alas France | A |
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| She struggles in a deathly trance | A |
| As in a dream her pulses stir | E |
| She hears the nations calling her | E |
| France France France | A |
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| Thou people of the lifted lance | A |
| Forbear her tears forbear her blood | F |
| Roll back roll back thy whelming flood | F |
| Back from France | A |
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| Eye not her loveliness askance | A |
| Forge not for her a galling chain | G |
| Leave her at peace to bloom again | H |
| Vine clad France | A |
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| A time there is for change and chance | A |
| A time for passing of the cup | I |
| And One abides can yet bind up | I |
| Broken France | A |
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| A time there is for change and chance | A |
| Who next shall drink the trembling cup | I |
| Wring out its dregs and suck them up | I |
| After France | A |
Christina Rossetti
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