Arms And The Man. - The Splendid Three Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFCCCGGGHHG II JJ KK LL KK KK| Turned back my gaze on Spain's romantic shore | A |
| I see Gaul bending by the grave of Moore | B |
| And later when the page of Fame I scan | C |
| I see brave France at deadly Inkerman | C |
| While on red Balaklava's field I hear | D |
| Gallia's applause swell Albion's ringing cheer | E |
| England and France as Allies side by side | F |
| Fought on the Pieho's melancholy tide | F |
| And there brave Tattnall ere the fight was done | C |
| Stirred English hearts as far as shone the sun | C |
| Or tides and billows in their courses run | C |
| That day 'mid the dark Pieho's slaughter | G |
| He said Blood is thicker than water | G |
| And your true man though brayed in a mortar | G |
| At feast or at fray | H |
| Will still feel it and say | H |
| As he said Blood is thicker than water | G |
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| And full homely is the saying but this story always starts | I |
| An answer from ten thousand times ten thousand kindred hearts | I |
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| Then let us pray that as the sun shines ever on the sea | J |
| Fair Peace forevermore may smile upon the Splendid Three | J |
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| May happy France see purple grapes a glow on all her hills | K |
| And England breast deep in her corn laugh back the laugh of rills | K |
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| May this fair land to which all roads lead as the roads of Rome | L |
| Led to th' eternal city's gates still offer Man a home | L |
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| A home of peace and plenty and of freedom and of ease | K |
| With all before him where to choose between the shining seas | K |
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| May the war cries of the Captains yield to happy reapers shouts | K |
| And the clover whiten bastions and the olive shade redoubts | K |
James Barron Hope
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