The Rebel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDBBEEF GGHHIIJJDD KKLLFFMMFFNN| There is a wall of which the stones | A |
| Are lies and bribes and dead men's bones | A |
| And wrongfully this evil wall | B |
| Denies what all men made for all | B |
| And shamelessly this wall surrounds | C |
| Our homesteads and our native grounds | C |
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| But I will gather and I will ride | D |
| And I will summon a countryside | D |
| And many a man shall hear my halloa | B |
| Who never had thought the horn to follow | B |
| And many a man shall ride with me | E |
| Who never had thought on earth to see | E |
| High Justice in her armoury | F |
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| When we find them where they stand | G |
| A mile of men on either hand | G |
| I mean to charge from right away | H |
| And force the flanks of their array | H |
| And press them inward from the plains | I |
| And drive them clamouring down the lanes | I |
| And gallop and harry and have them down | J |
| And carry the gates and hold the town | J |
| Then shall I rest me from my ride | D |
| With my great anger satisfied | D |
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| Only before I eat and drink | K |
| When I have killed them all I think | K |
| That I will batter their carven names | L |
| And slit the pictures in their frames | L |
| And burn for scent their cedar door | F |
| And melt the gold their women wore | F |
| And hack their horses at the knees | M |
| And hew to death their timber trees | M |
| And plough their gardens deep and through | F |
| And all these things I mean to do | F |
| For fear perhaps my little son | N |
| Should break his hands as I have done | N |
Hilaire Belloc
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