An Alliance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MNLNOPDP QRSRTUVU| This is the weird of a world old folk | A |
| That not till the last link breaks | B |
| Not till the night is blackest | C |
| The blood of Hengist wakes | B |
| When the sun is black in heaven | D |
| The moon as blood above | E |
| And the earth is full of hatred | F |
| This people tells its love | E |
| - | |
| In change eclipse and peril | G |
| Under the whole world's scorn | H |
| By blood and death and darkness | I |
| The Saxon peace is sworn | H |
| That all our fruit be gathered | J |
| And all our race take hands | K |
| And the sea be a Saxon river | L |
| That runs through Saxon lands | K |
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| Lo not in vain we bore him | M |
| Behold it not in vain | N |
| Four centuries' dooms of torture | L |
| Choked in the throat of Spain | N |
| Ere priest or tyrant triumph | O |
| We know how well we know | P |
| Bone of that bone can whiten | D |
| Blood of that blood can flow | P |
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| Deep grows the hate of kindred | Q |
| Its roots take hold on hell | R |
| No peace or praise can heal it | S |
| But a stranger heals it well | R |
| Seas shall be red as sunsets | T |
| And kings' bones float as foam | U |
| And heaven be dark with vultures | V |
| The night our son comes home | U |
G. K. Chesterton
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