To Captain Fryatt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FFFF CGCG| Trampled yet red is the last of the embers | A |
| Red the last cloud of a sun that has set | B |
| What of your sleeping though Flanders remembers | A |
| What of your waking if England forget | B |
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| Why should you share in the hearts that we harden | C |
| In the shame of our nature who see it and live | D |
| How more than the godly the greedy can pardon | C |
| How well and how quickly the hungry forgive | E |
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| Ah well if the soil of the stranger had wrapped you | F |
| While the lords that you served and the friends that you knew | F |
| Hawk in the marts of the tyrants that trapped you | F |
| Tout in the shops of the butchers that slew | F |
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| Why should you wake for a realm that is rotten | C |
| Stuffed with their bribes and as dead to their debts | G |
| Sleep and forget us as we have forgotten | C |
| For Flanders remembers and England forgets | G |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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