Arms And The Man. - Welcome To France Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDE EFGGF EHHIIEIIJKJ LMNNJJOOJFPF QQRRJKJ EFGGFFSSF TTUUDDDDEEJJ VWDWFFX| But in that fiery zone | A |
| She upriseth not alone | A |
| Over all the bloody fields | B |
| Glitter Amazonian shields | B |
| While through the mists of years | C |
| Another form appears | C |
| And as I bow my head | D |
| Already you have said | D |
| 'Tis France | E |
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| Welcome to France | E |
| From sea to sea | F |
| With heart and hand | G |
| Welcome to all within the land | G |
| Thrice welcome let her be | F |
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| And to France | E |
| The Union here to day | H |
| Gives the right of this array | H |
| And folds her to her breast | I |
| As the friend that she loves best | I |
| Yes to France | E |
| The proud Ruler of the West | I |
| Bows her sun illumined crest | I |
| Grave and slow | J |
| In a passion of fond memories of | K |
| One hundred years ago | J |
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| France's colors wave again | L |
| High above this tented plain | M |
| Stream and flaunt and blaze and shine | N |
| O'er the banner painted brine | N |
| Float and flow | J |
| And the brazen trumpets blow | J |
| While upon her serried lines | O |
| Full the light of Freedom shines | O |
| In a broad effulgent glow | J |
| And here this day I see | F |
| The fairest dream that ever yet | P |
| Was dreamt by History | F |
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| As in cadence and in time | Q |
| To the martial throb and rhyme | Q |
| Of her bugles and her drums | R |
| Forth a stately vision comes | R |
| Comes majestically slow | J |
| Comes a fair and stately vision of | K |
| One hundred years ago | J |
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| Welcome to France | E |
| From sea to sea | F |
| With heart and hand | G |
| Welcome to all within the land | G |
| Thrice welcome let her be | F |
| Of Freedom's Guild made free | F |
| Welcome | S |
| Thrice Welcome | S |
| Welcome let her be | F |
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| And as in days of old | T |
| Walter Raleigh did unfold | T |
| His gay cloak with all its hems | U |
| Wrought in braided gold and gems | U |
| That his Queen might passing tread | D |
| On the sumptuous cloth outspread | D |
| And step on the shining fold | D |
| Or fair samnite rich in gold | D |
| So for France | E |
| Splendid grand majestic France | E |
| May Fortune down her mantle throw | J |
| To mend the way that she may go | J |
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| May GLORY leap before to reap | V |
| Up to the shoulders turned her sleeves | W |
| And FAME behind follow to bind | D |
| Unnumbered honors in unnumbered sheaves | W |
| And may that mantle forever be | F |
| Under thy footfall oh France the Free | F |
| Forever and forever | X |
James Barron Hope
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