To England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDFGHIHJKLKAMN OMMOPMQFQFFQARSRSTUT UVWVWXQXQYZYA2B2C2DD 2PE2F2PF2WG2SH2TI2I2 I2I2II2IPPJ2K2

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THERE was a time when all thy sons were proudB
To speak thy nameC
England when Europe echoed back aloudB
Thy fearless fameC
When Spain reeled shattered helpless from thy gunsD
And splendid ireE
When from Canadian snows to Indian sunsD
Pitt's soul was fireF
O that in days like these were fair and freeG
From shame and scornH
Fate had allowed benignly pityinglyI
That I was bornH
O that if struck then struck with glorious woundsJ
I bore apartK
Not torn with fangs of leprous coward houndsL
My bleeding heartK
IIA
We hate You not because of cruel deedsM
Staining a glorious effort They who liveN
Learn in this earth to give and to forgiveO
Where heart and soul are noble and fate's needsM
Imperious No nor yet that cruel seedsM
Of power and wrong you've sown alternativeO
We hate You we your sons who yet believeP
That truth and justice are not empty creedsM
No but because of greed and garbled payQ
Wages of sin and death because you smotherF
Your conscience making curs d all the dayQ
Bible in one hand bludgeon in the otherF
Cain like you come upon and slay your brotherF
And kneeling down thank God for it and prayQ
IIIA
I whom you fed with shame and starved with woeR
I wheel above YouS
Your fatal vulture for I hate You soR
I almost love YouS
I smell your ruin out I light and croakT
My sombre loreU
As swaggering You go by O 'heart of oak'T
Rotten to the coreU
Look westward Ireland's vengeful eyes are castV
On freedom wonW
Look eastward India stirs from sleep at lastV
You are undoneW
Look southward where Australia hears your voiceX
And turns awayQ
O brutal Hypocrite she makes her choiceX
With the rising dayQ
Foul Esau you who sold your high birthrightY
For gilded mudZ
Who did the wrong and priestlike called it rightY
And swindled GodA2
The hour is gone of insult pain and patienceB2
The hour is comeC2
When they arise the faithful mightier NationsD
To drag you downD2
IVP
England the land I lovedE2
With passionate prideF2
For hate of whom I liveP
Who for love had diedF2
Can I while shines the sunW
That hour regainG2
When I again may come to youS
And love againH2
No not while that FlagT
Of greed and lustI2
Flaunts in the air untaughtI2
To drag the dustI2
Never till expiantI2
I see You kneelI
And brandished gleams aloftI2
The foeman's steelI
Ah then to speed and laughP
As my heart caught the knifeP
'Mother I love you HereJ2
Here is my life 'K2

Francis William Lauderdale Adams



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