America To England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCDEFEFEF FFFFFFFFGHGIHI| A | |
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| Who would trust England let him lift his eyes | B |
| To Nelson columned o'er Trafalgar Square | C |
| Her hieroglyph of duty written where | C |
| The roar of traffic hushes to the skies | B |
| Or mark while Paul's vast shadow softly lies | B |
| On Gordon's statued sleep how praise and prayer | C |
| Flush through the frank young faces clustering there | C |
| To con that kindred rune of sacrifice | D |
| O England no bland cloud ship in the blue | E |
| But rough oak plunging on o'er perilous jars | F |
| Of reef and ice our faith will follow you | E |
| The more for tempest roar that strains your spars | F |
| And splits your canvas be your helm but true | E |
| Your courses shapen by the eternal stars | F |
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| The nightmare melts at last and London wakes | F |
| To her old habit of victorious ease | F |
| More men and more and more for over seas | F |
| More guns until the giant hammer breaks | F |
| That patriot folk whom even God forsakes | F |
| Shall not Great England work her will on these | F |
| The foolish little nations and appease | F |
| An angry shame that in her memory aches | F |
| But far beyond the fierce contested flood | G |
| The cannon planted pass the shell torn town | H |
| The last wild carnival of fire and blood | G |
| Beware beware that dim and awful Shade | I |
| Armored with Milton's sword and Cromwell's frown | H |
| Affronted Freedom of her own betrayed | I |
Katharine Lee Bates
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