Lines On Annexation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIGI JGKG LMNM OGPG QRSR TUVU WXYX| We honour Brother Jonathan | A |
| For what he has done and dared | B |
| Nobly and firmly he hath stood | C |
| His freeborn rights to guard | D |
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| And when we see him go ahead | E |
| We are not with envy vexed | F |
| We wish him all prosperity | G |
| Yet will not be annexed | F |
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| We know he has much moral force | H |
| Much that is good and great | I |
| Much enterprise and energy | G |
| Which we would imitate | I |
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| But there's upon his scutcheon stains | J |
| Which we lament to see | G |
| And will not share will not annex | K |
| Our soil and air are free | G |
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| And far more glorious is the flag | L |
| Which o'er the Briton waves | M |
| Than that whose stars of freedom shine | N |
| Upon the stripes of slaves | M |
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| We love our Queen we love our laws | O |
| We feel that we are free | G |
| As independently we sit | P |
| Each 'neath his maple tree | G |
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| Serene while over other lands | Q |
| Rolls revolution's storm | R |
| Where they can't speak their grievances | S |
| Dare not demand reform | R |
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| We can as freeborn subjects make | T |
| Our wants and wishes known | U |
| Our voices move the parliament | V |
| And vibrate to the throne | U |
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| We're Britons and as such we'll not | W |
| For annexation sue | X |
| Our prayer is still God save the Queen | Y |
| And bless our country too | X |
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Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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