England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCC DEDEFFF GHGHIII JKJKLLL MNOPQQQ RSTSUUU VWXWYYY EJEJZZZ A2B2A2C2LLL D2BD2BAAAA| Shall we but turn from braggart pride | A |
| Our race to cheapen and defame | B |
| Before the world to wail to chide | A |
| And weakness as with vaunting claim | B |
| Ere the hour strikes to abdicate | C |
| The steadfast spirit that made us great | C |
| And rail with scolding tongues at fate | C |
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| If England's heritage indeed | D |
| Be lost be traded quite away | E |
| For fatted sloth and fevered greed | D |
| If inly rotting we decay | E |
| Suffer we then what doom we must | F |
| But silent as befits the dust | F |
| Of them whose chastisement was just | F |
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| But rather England rally thou | G |
| Whatever breathes of faith that still | H |
| Within thee keeps the undying vow | G |
| And dedicates the constant will | H |
| For such yet lives if not among | I |
| The boasters or the loud of tongue | I |
| Who cry that England's knell is rung | I |
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| The faint of heart the small of brain | J |
| In thee but their own image find | K |
| Beyond such thoughts as these contain | J |
| A mightier Presence is enshrined | K |
| Nor meaner than their birthright grown | L |
| Shall these thy latest sons be shown | L |
| So thou but use them for thine own | L |
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| By those great spirits burning high | M |
| In our home's heaven that shall be stars | N |
| To shine when all is history | O |
| And rumour of old idle wars | P |
| By all those hearts which proudly bled | Q |
| To make this rose of England red | Q |
| The living the triumphant dead | Q |
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| By all who suffered and stood fast | R |
| That Freedom might the weak uphold | S |
| And in men's ways of wreck and waste | T |
| Justice her awful flower unfold | S |
| By all who out of grief and wrong | U |
| In passion's art of noble song | U |
| Made Beauty to our speech belong | U |
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| By those adventurous ones who went | V |
| Forth overseas and self exiled | W |
| Sought from far isle and continent | X |
| Another England in the wild | W |
| For whom no drums beat yet they fought | Y |
| Alone in courage of a thought | Y |
| Which an unbounded future wrought | Y |
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| Yea and yet more by those to day | E |
| Who toil and serve for naught of gain | J |
| That in thy purer glory they | E |
| May melt their ardour and their pain | J |
| By these and by the faith of these | Z |
| The faith that glorifies and frees | Z |
| Thy lands call on thee and thy seas | Z |
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| If thou hast sinned shall we forsake | A2 |
| Thee or the less account us thine | B2 |
| Thy sores thy shames on us we take | A2 |
| Flies not for us thy famed ensign | C2 |
| Be ours to cleanse and to atone | L |
| No man this burden bears alone | L |
| England our best shall be thine own | L |
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| Lift up thy cause into the light | D2 |
| Put all the factious lips to shame | B |
| Our loves our faiths our hopes unite | D2 |
| And strike into a single flame | B |
| Whatever from without betide | A |
| O purify the soul of pride | A |
| In us thy slumbers cast aside | A |
| And of thy sons be justified | A |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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