To The Queen Of England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DEDEEFF BGBGGHI JEJEEKK LMLMMNN OPOPPQR CSCSSSS LTLUUUU UVUWWUU UXUXXUU XSXSSSS SCSCCIH YSYSSZZ SGSGLA2| COME forth the world's aflame with flags and flowers | A |
| The shout of bells fills full the shattered air | B |
| This is the crown of all your golden hours | A |
| More than all other hours august and fair | B |
| This did the years prepare | B |
| A triumph for our Lady and our Queen | C |
| More rich than any king in any land hath seen | C |
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| Clothed are your streets with scarlet gold and blue | D |
| Flowers under foot and banners over head | E |
| And while your people's voice storms Heaven for you | D |
| About your way are voiceless blessings shed | E |
| And over you are spread | E |
| Wide wings of love free love tamed to your hand | F |
| Love that gold cannot buy nor Majesty command | F |
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| Not these mere visible millions only share | B |
| Your triumph here all English hearts beat high | G |
| Nations far off your royal colours wear | B |
| And swell with unheard voice this loyal cry | G |
| That strikes the English sky | G |
| A cloud of unseen witnesses is here | H |
| To testify how great is England's Queen and dear | I |
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| From out the grey veiled past long years away | J |
| Come visionary faces vision led | E |
| And splendid shapes that are not of our day | J |
| The spirits of the mute and mighty dead | E |
| To see how Time has sped | E |
| The fortunes of their England and behold | K |
| How much more great she is than in the days of old | K |
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| The world can see them not but you can see | L |
| You the inheritor of all the past | M |
| Wherein the dead in noble heraldry | L |
| Blazoned the shield of England and forecast | M |
| The charge it bears at last | M |
| More splendid than the azure and the or | N |
| Of the French lilies lost long lost and sorrowed for | N |
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| Here be the weaponed men the English folk | O |
| Who in long ships across the swan's bath fared | P |
| In whose rude tongue the voice of Freedom spoke | O |
| In whose rough hands the sword was bright and bared | P |
| The men who did and dared | P |
| And to their sons bequeathed the fighting blood | Q |
| That drives to Victory and will not be withstood | R |
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| Here in your ordered festival O Queen | C |
| Mixed with the crowd and all unseen of these | S |
| On their long swords the wild Norse rovers lean | C |
| And watch the progress of your pageantries | S |
| And on this young June breeze | S |
| Float the bright pennons of the Cressy spears | S |
| Shine shadowy shafts that fell as snow falls at Poitiers | S |
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| Here flutter phantom flags that once flew free | L |
| Above the travail of the tournament | T |
| Here gleam old swords once wet for Liberty | L |
| Old blood stiff banners worn with war and rent | U |
| Are with your fresh flowers blent | U |
| And by your crown where love and fame consort | U |
| Shines the unvanquished cloven crown of Agincourt | U |
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| Upon your river where by day and night | U |
| Your world adventuring ships come home again | V |
| Glide ghostly galleons manned by men of might | U |
| Who plucked the wings and singed the beard of Spain | W |
| The men who not in vain | W |
| Saved to the children of a world new trod | U |
| The birth tongue of our land her freedom and her God | U |
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| Princes who lived to make our England great | U |
| Poets who wreathed her greatness with their song | X |
| Wise men who steered her heavy ship of State | U |
| Brave men who steered her battle ships along | X |
| In spectral concourse throng | X |
| To applaud the consummated power and pride | U |
| Of that belov d land for which they lived and died | U |
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| The thousand un named heroes who sword strong | X |
| Ploughed the long acre wherein Empire grows | S |
| Wide as the world and long as Time is long | X |
| These mark the crescence of the English rose | S |
| Whose thorny splendour glows | S |
| O'er far off subject lands by alien waves | S |
| A crown for England's brow a garland for her graves | S |
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| And faces out of unforgotten years | S |
| Faces long hidden by death's misty screen | C |
| Faces you still can scarcely see for tears | S |
| Will smile on you to day and near you lean | C |
| O Mother Wife and Queen | C |
| With whispered love too sacred and too dear | I |
| For any ear than yours Mother and Wife to hear | H |
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| Lady the crowd will vaunt to day your fame | Y |
| Daughter and heir of many mighty kings | S |
| The Queen of England whose imperial name | Y |
| From England's heart and lips tumultuous springs | S |
| In prayers and thanksgivings | S |
| Because your greatness and her greatness shine | Z |
| Merged each in each as stars their beams that intertwine | Z |
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| Yet in the inmost heart where folded close | S |
| The richest treasures of the poorest lie | G |
| Love whose clear eyes see many secrets knows | S |
| A nobler name than Queen to call you by | G |
| And breathes it silently | L |
| But 'mid His listening crowd of angels One | A2 |
| Shall speak your name and say 'Faithful and good well done ' | - |
Edith Nesbit
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