Greater Britain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFBFB GHIHJBJB| Our hearts were not set on fighting | A |
| We did not pant for the fray | B |
| And whatever wrongs need righting | A |
| We would not have met that way | B |
| But the way that has opened before us | C |
| Leads on thro' a blood red field | D |
| And we swear by the great God o'er us | C |
| We will die but we will not yield | D |
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| The battle is not of our making | A |
| And war was never our plan | E |
| Yet all that is sweet forsaking | A |
| We march to it man by man | E |
| It is either to smite or be smitten | F |
| There's no other choice to day | B |
| And we live as befits the Briton | F |
| Or we die as the Briton may | B |
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| We were not fashioned for cages | G |
| Or to feed from a keeper's hand | H |
| Our strength which has grown thro' ages | I |
| Is the strength of a slave free land | H |
| We cannot kneel down to a master | J |
| To our God alone can we pray | B |
| And we stand in this world disaster | J |
| To fight like a lion at bay | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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