The Englishman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJIFEF KHLHMENO| Born in the flesh and bred in the bone | A |
| Some of us harbour still | B |
| A New World pride and we flaunt or hide | C |
| The Spirit of Bunker Hill | B |
| We claim our place as a separate race | D |
| Or a self created clan | E |
| Till there comes a day when we like to say | F |
| 'We are kin of the Englishman ' | G |
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| For under the front that seems so cold | H |
| And the voice that is wont to storm | I |
| We are certain to find a big broad mind | J |
| And a heart that is soft and warm | I |
| And he carries his woes in a lordly way | F |
| As only the great souls can | E |
| And it makes us glad when in truth we say | F |
| We are kin of the Englishman ' | - |
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| He slams his door in the face of the world | K |
| If he thinks the world too bold | H |
| He will even curse but he opens his purse | L |
| To the poor and the sick and the old | H |
| He is slow in giving to woman the vote | M |
| And slow to put up her fan | E |
| But he gives her room in the hour of doom | N |
| And dies like an Englishman | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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