England In Egypt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFGFHIJJKILMKLL NOLPQQPQRQQQSIQQKILM KLLNTLQUQUVWVWUIQQKI LMXLLNQL| FROM the dusty jaded sunlight of the careless Cairo streets | A |
| Through the open bedroom window where the pale blue held the | B |
| palms | C |
| There came a sound of music thrilling cries and rattling beats | A |
| That startled me from slumber with a shock of sweet alarms | D |
| For beneath this rainless heaven with this music in my ears | E |
| I was born and all my boyhood with its joy was glorified | F |
| And for me the ranging Red coats hold a passion of bright tears | G |
| And the glancing of the bayonets lights a hell of savage pride | F |
| So I leaped and ran and looked | H |
| And I stood and listened there | I |
| Till I heard the fifes and drums | J |
| Till I heard the fifes and drums | J |
| The fifes and drums of England | K |
| Thrilling all the alien air | I |
| And 'England England England ' | L |
| I heard the wild fifes cry | M |
| 'We are here to rob for England | K |
| And to throttle liberty ' | L |
| And 'England England England ' | L |
| I heard the fierce drums roar | N |
| 'We are tools for pious swindlers | O |
| And brute bullies evermore ' | L |
| And the silent Arabs crowded half defiant half dismayed | P |
| And the jaunty fifers fifing flung their challenge to the breeze | Q |
| And the drummers kneed their drums up as the reckless drumsticks | Q |
| played | P |
| And the Tommies all came trooping tripping slouching at their ease | Q |
| Ah Christ the love I bore them for their brave hearts and strong | R |
| Ah Christ the hate that smote me for their stupid dull conceits | Q |
| I know not which was greater as I watched their conquering bands | Q |
| In the dusty jaded sunlight of the sullen Cairo streets | Q |
| And my dream of love and hate | S |
| Surged and broke and gathered there | I |
| As I heard the fifes and drums | Q |
| As I heard the fifes and drums | Q |
| The fifes and drums of England | K |
| Thrilling all the alien air | I |
| And 'Tommy Tommy Tommy ' | L |
| I heard the wild fifes cry | M |
| 'Will you never know the England | K |
| For which men not fools should die ' | L |
| And 'Tommy Tommy Tommy ' | L |
| I heard the fierce drums roar | N |
| 'Will you always be a cut throat | T |
| And a slave for evermore ' | L |
| No I shall never see it with these weary death dim eyes | Q |
| The hour of Retribution the hour of Fate's desire | U |
| When before the outraged millions as at last at last they rise | Q |
| The rogues and thieves of England are as stubble to the fire | U |
| When the gentlemen of England eaten out with lust and sin | V |
| When the shop keepers of England sick with godly greed as well | W |
| Face the Red coats and the Red shirts as the steel ring closes in | V |
| And hurls them howling madly down the precipice of hell | W |
| But O I knew that hour | U |
| Standing sick and dying there | I |
| As I heard the fifes and drums | Q |
| As I heard the fifes and drums | Q |
| The fifes and drums of England | K |
| Thrilling all the alien air | I |
| And 'Tommy Tommy Tommy ' | L |
| I heard the wild fifes cry | M |
| 'It is time to cease your fooling | X |
| It is time to do or die ' | L |
| And 'Johnnie Johnnie Johnnie ' | L |
| I heard the fierce drums roar | N |
| 'It is time to break your fetters | Q |
| And be free for evermore ' | L |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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