Songs Of Education: Ii. Geography Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEEFFCC GGHHICC JJKKLLCC MMNNNNCC| Form Sub Section Z | A |
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| The earth is a place on which England is found | B |
| And you find it however you twirl the globe round | B |
| For the spots are all red and the rest is all grey | C |
| And that is the meaning of Empire Day | C |
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| Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain | D |
| And attached to its base is the district of Spain | D |
| And the island of Malta is marked further on | E |
| Where some natives were known as the Knights of St John | E |
| Then Cyprus and east to the Suez Canal | F |
| That was conquered by Dizzy and Rothschild his pal | F |
| With the Sword of the Lord in the old English way | C |
| And that is the meaning of Empire Day | C |
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| Our principal imports come far as Cape Horn | G |
| For necessities cocoa for luxuries corn | G |
| Thus Brahmins are born for the rice field and thus | H |
| The Gods made the Greeks to grow currants for us | H |
| Tobacco and petrol and Jazzing and Jews | I |
| The Jazzing will pass but the Jews they will stay | C |
| And that is the meaning of Empire Day | C |
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| Our principal exports all labelled and packed | J |
| At the ends of the earth are delivered intact | J |
| Our soap or our salmon can travel in tins | K |
| Between the two poles and as like as two pins | K |
| So that Lancashire merchants whenever they like | L |
| Can water the beer of a man in Klondike | L |
| Or poison the meat of a man in Bombay | C |
| And that is the meaning of Empire Day | C |
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| The day of St George is a musty affair | M |
| Which Russians and Greeks are permitted to share | M |
| The day of Trafalgar is Spanish in name | N |
| And the Spaniards refuse to pronounce it the same | N |
| But the Day of the Empire from Canada came | N |
| With Morden and Borden and Beaverbrook's fame | N |
| And saintly seraphical souls such as they | C |
| And that is the meaning of Empire Day | C |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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