Florian's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI CJCJKLKL| My soul it shall not take us | A |
| O we will escape | B |
| This world that strives to break us | A |
| And cast us to its shape | B |
| Its chisel shall not enter | C |
| Its fire shall not touch | D |
| Hard from rim to centre | C |
| We will not crack or smutch | D |
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| 'Gainst words sweet and flowered | E |
| We have an amulet | F |
| We will not play the coward | E |
| For any black threat | G |
| If we but give endurance | H |
| To what is now within | I |
| The single assurance | H |
| That it is good to win | I |
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| Slaves think it better | C |
| To be weak than strong | J |
| Whose hate is a fetter | C |
| And their love a thong | J |
| But we will view those others | K |
| With eyes like stone | L |
| And if we have no brothers | K |
| We will walk alone | L |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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