The Fourth Of August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD CECE FGFH ICIC JKLK CMCM| Now in thy splendour go before us | A |
| Spirit of England ardent eyed | B |
| Enkindle this dear earth that bore us | A |
| In the hour of peril purified | B |
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| The cares we hugged drop out of vision | C |
| Our hearts with deeper thought dilate | D |
| We step from days of sour division | C |
| Into the grandeur of our fate | D |
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| For us the glorious dead have striven | C |
| They battled that we might be free | E |
| We to their living cause are given | C |
| We arm for men that are to be | E |
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| Among the nations nobliest chartered | F |
| England recalls her heritage | G |
| In her is that which is not bartered | F |
| Which force can neither quell nor cage | H |
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| For her immortal stars are burning | I |
| With her the hope that's never done | C |
| The seed that's in the Spring's returning | I |
| The very flower that seeks the sun | C |
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| She fights the force that feeds desire on | J |
| Dreams of a prey to seize and kill | K |
| The barren creed of blood and iron | L |
| Vampire of Europe's wasted will | K |
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| Endure O Earth and thou awaken | C |
| Purged by this dreadful winnowing fan | M |
| O wronged untameable unshaken | C |
| Soul of divinely suffering man | M |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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