This Is No Case Of Petty Right Or Wrong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAEDFDFGHGHIJKL DDDDMM| This is no case of petty right or wrong | A |
| That politicians or philosophers | B |
| Can judge I hate not Germans nor grow hot | C |
| With love of Englishmen to please newspapers | B |
| Beside my hate for one fat patriot | D |
| My hatred of the Kaiser is love true | E |
| A kind of god he is banging a gong | A |
| But I have not to choose between the two | E |
| Or between justice and injustice Dinned | D |
| With war and argument I read no more | F |
| Than in the storm smoking along the wind | D |
| Athwart the wood Two witches' cauldrons roar | F |
| From one the weather shall rise clear and gay | G |
| Out of the other an England beautiful | H |
| And like her mother that died yesterday | G |
| Little I know or care if being dull | H |
| I shall miss something that historians | I |
| Can rake out of the ashes when perchance | J |
| The phoenix broods serene above their ken | K |
| But with the best and meanest Englishmen | L |
| I am one in crying God save England lest | D |
| We lose what never slaves and cattle blessed | D |
| The ages made her that made us from dust | D |
| She is all we know and live by and we trust | D |
| She is good and must endure loving her so | M |
| And as we love ourselves we hate her foe | M |
Edward Thomas
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