The Escape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHHHHG IJIJKLKL FMNNNNM LDLDODOD FPQQRQP| We watched you building stone by stone | A |
| The well washed cells and well washed graves | B |
| We shall inhabit but not own | A |
| When Britons ever shall be slaves | B |
| The water's waiting in the trough | C |
| The tame oats sown are portioned free | D |
| There is Enough and just Enough | E |
| And all is ready now but we | D |
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| But you have not caught us yet my lords | F |
| You have us still to get | G |
| A sorry army you'd have got | H |
| Its flags are rags that float and rot | H |
| Its drums are empty pan and pot | H |
| Its baggage is an empty cot | H |
| But you have not caught us yet | G |
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| A little and we might have slipped | I |
| When came your rumours and your sales | J |
| And the foiled rich men feeble lipped | I |
| Said and unsaid their sorry tales | J |
| Great God It needs a bolder brow | K |
| To keep ten sheep inside a pen | L |
| And we are sheep no longer now | K |
| You are but Masters We are Men | L |
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| We give you all good thanks my lords | F |
| We buy at easy price | M |
| Thanks for the thousands that you stole | N |
| The bribes by wire the bets on coal | N |
| The knowledge of that naked whole | N |
| That hath delivered our flesh and soul | N |
| Out of your Paradise | M |
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| We had held safe your parks but when | L |
| Men taunted you with bribe and fee | D |
| We only saw the Lord of Men | L |
| Grin like an Ape and climb a tree | D |
| And humbly had we stood without | O |
| Your princely barns did we not see | D |
| In pointed faces peering out | O |
| What Rats now own the granary | D |
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| It is too late too late my lords | F |
| We give you back your grace | P |
| You cannot with all cajoling | Q |
| Make the wet ditch or winds that sting | Q |
| Lost pride or the pawned wedding rings | R |
| Or drink or Death a blacker thing | Q |
| Than a smile upon your face | P |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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