Bonds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAACCA ABBACCBABBADDB AAEAFFA GHHGAAH BIIBCCI| Briggs | A |
| Joseph Briggs of Yorkshire England blessed country of Freetrade | B |
| Where the large importers' profits and fine sentiments are made | B |
| Digs | A |
| Deep into his mine of wisdom and with British fervency | A |
| Bids us mark the Bonds of Empire reaching out across the sea | A |
| Binding us to one another | C |
| Us and our benign old mother | C |
| Patriotic apron strings of Empire we would scorn to free | A |
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| Threads | A |
| Crimson threads of kith and kinship thin red lines of sentiment | B |
| What a wave of fervid friendship over all the continent | B |
| Spreads | A |
| When some speaker bids us ponder | C |
| On those threads that reach out yonder | C |
| But alas there are acute grumblers whom mere threads do not content | B |
| Ties | A |
| Silken ties O who would venture to disturb a single thread | B |
| What a roar of public censure would descend upon his head | B |
| Rise | A |
| Split the welkin with your shouting | D |
| Cheer those ties What Still some doubting | D |
| Pesslmists Then here is something more substantial in their stead | B |
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| Bonds | A |
| GOLDEN BONDS Ah Now we mention cold commercial s d | A |
| All the land is at attention Witness how the Empire re | E |
| Sponds | A |
| Bonds at three or four percent'll | F |
| Beat all shackles sentimental | F |
| In the land of shops and shekels in the country of the free | A |
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| Cash | G |
| Cold hard cash O magic metal How the golden cables groan | H |
| When we're called upon to settle or renew our little loan | H |
| Smash | G |
| Never Though it strains and quivers | A |
| When the bloated Dreadnought givers | A |
| Try to shirk the cost of paying for a navy of our own | H |
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| Gold | B |
| Chains of gold Brave bonds of boodle of the merchants' finest make | I |
| No assault however rude 'll cause those golden links to break | I |
| Hold | B |
| Crimson threads may snap and sever | C |
| Silken ties may break but never | C |
| Shall those chains they hold for ever for the loyal traders' sake | I |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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