At Gibraltar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEDFEG A HIIHHIIHIEIEIE| I | A |
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| England I stand on thy imperial ground | B |
| Not all a stranger as thy bugles blow | C |
| I feel within my blood old battles flow | C |
| The blood whose ancient founts in thee are found | B |
| Still surging dark against the Christian bound | B |
| Wide Islam presses well its peoples know | C |
| Thy heights that watch them wandering below | C |
| I think how Lucknow heard their gathering sound | B |
| I turn and meet the cruel turbaned face | D |
| England 't is sweet to be so much thy son | E |
| I feel the conqueror in my blood and race | D |
| Last night Trafalgar awed me and to day | F |
| Gibraltar wakened hark thy evening gun | E |
| Startles the desert over Africa | G |
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| II | A |
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| Thou art the rock of empire set mid seas | H |
| Between the East and West that God has built | I |
| Advance thy Roman borders where thou wilt | I |
| While run thy armies true with His decrees | H |
| Law justice liberty great gifts are these | H |
| Watch that they spread where English blood is spilt | I |
| Lest mixed and sullied with his country's guilt | I |
| The soldier's life stream flow and Heaven displease | H |
| Two swords there are one naked apt to smite | I |
| Thy blade of war and battle storied one | E |
| Rejoices in the sheath and hides from light | I |
| American I am would wars were done | E |
| Now westward look my country bids good night | I |
| Peace to the world from ports without a gun | E |
George Edward Woodberry
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