On A Troopship - 1915 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHIHIJKLK| FAREWELL the village leaning to the hill | A |
| And all the cawing rooks that homeward fly | B |
| The bees the drowsy anthem of the mill | A |
| The willows winding under April sky | B |
| We watch the breakers crashing on the bow | C |
| And those far flashes in the Eastern haze | D |
| The fields and friends that were are fainter now | C |
| Than whispering of ancient waterways | D |
| Now England stirs as stirs a dreamer wound | E |
| In immemorial slumber lids apart | F |
| Soon will she rouse her giant limbs attuned | G |
| To that old music hidden at her heart | F |
| The small occasions and the menial cries | H |
| Fade fast away the little men beware | I |
| She rises in her circuit of the skies | H |
| An eagle drinking of the mountain air | I |
| We come to harbour in the breath of wars | J |
| Welcome again the land of our farewells | K |
| In this strange ruin open to the stars | L |
| We find the haven where her spirit dwells | K |
Herbert Asquith
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