Happy Is England Now Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDB EEFGDH IDJJDD KKDLKD| There is not anything more wonderful | A |
| Than a great people moving towards the deep | B |
| Of an unguessed and unfeared future nor | C |
| Is aught so dear of all held dear before | C |
| As the new passion stirring in their veins | D |
| When the destroying Dragon wakes from sleep | B |
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| Happy is England now as never yet | E |
| And though the sorrows of the slow days fret | E |
| Her faithfullest children grief itself is proud | F |
| Ev'n the warm beauty of this spring and summer | G |
| That turns to bitterness turns then to gladness | D |
| Since for this England the beloved ones died | H |
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| Happy is England in the brave that die | I |
| For wrongs not hers and wrongs so sternly hers | D |
| Happy in those that give give and endure | J |
| The pain that never the new years may cure | J |
| Happy in all her dark woods green fields towns | D |
| Her hills and rivers and her chafing sea | D |
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| Whate'er was dear before is dearer now | K |
| There's not a bird singing upon his bough | K |
| But sings the sweeter in our English ears | D |
| There's not a nobleness of heart hand brain | L |
| But shines the purer happiest is England now | K |
| In those that fight and watch with pride and tears | D |
John Freeman
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