What Shall I Do For The Land That Bred Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB BBCBB BBABB DEABB| What shall I do for the land that bred me | A |
| Her homes and fields that folded and fed me | A |
| Be under her banner and live for her honour | B |
| Under her banner I'll live for her honour | B |
| CHORUS Under her banner live for her honour | B |
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| Not the pleasure the pay the plunder | B |
| But country and flag the flag I am under | B |
| There is the shilling that finds me willing | C |
| To follow a banner and fight for honour | B |
| CH We follow her banner we fight for her honour | B |
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| Call me England's fame's fond lover | B |
| Her fame to keep her fame to recover | B |
| Spend me or end me what God shall send me | A |
| But under her banner I live for her honour | B |
| CH Under her banner we march for her honour | B |
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| Where is the field I must play the man on | D |
| O welcome there their steel or cannon | E |
| Immortal beauty is death with duty | A |
| If under her banner I fall for her honour | B |
| CH Under her banner we fall for her honour | B |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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