Our Volunteers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFC GHGHIJKLI MNMNOPPQPO PRRPPRRRP| Where shall we write your names ye brave | A |
| Where build for you a monument | B |
| Who lie in many a sylvan grave | A |
| Stretched half across the continent | B |
| Young bright and brave the very flower | C |
| And choice of all we had to give | D |
| With you what glory ceased to live | E |
| Or lives again in hearts of men | F |
| An inspiration and a power | C |
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| For when one sunny day in June | G |
| A sudden war cry shook the land | H |
| As if from out clear skies at noon | G |
| Had dropped the lightning's deadly brand | H |
| Ah then while rang our British cheers | I |
| And pealed the bugle rolled the drum | J |
| We saw the Nation rise like one | K |
| Swift formed the files a thousand miles | L |
| Of them our gallant Volunteers | I |
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| Deep clanged the bells the drums did beat | M |
| And still from east and west they came | N |
| Echoed the street with martial feet | M |
| From north from south with hearts aflame | N |
| Ah still the tires of freedom burn | O |
| Be witness Ridgway's silent shade | P |
| No foe shall dare our land invade | P |
| While hearts like those that met the foes | Q |
| Still beat like theirs the undismayed | P |
| The brave who never will return | O |
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| Our Country holds them in her heart | P |
| Shrined with her mountains and her rivers | R |
| And still for them her proud lip quivers | R |
| And tears to her great eyelids start | P |
| But they are tears of love and pride | P |
| And she shall tell to coming years | R |
| The story of her Volunteers | R |
| For all their names are hers and fame's | R |
| The brave who live the brave who died | P |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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