Raising The Flag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG EHEHCDCD IJIJCKCK LLL| Behold the Spanish flag they're raising | A |
| Before the Palace courtyard gate | B |
| To watch its progress bold and blazing | A |
| Two hundred patient people wait | B |
| Though bandsmen play the anthem bravely | C |
| The silken emblem seems to lag | D |
| Two hundred people watch it gravely | C |
| But only two salute the flag | D |
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| Fine clad and arrogant of manner | E |
| The twain are like dark dons of old | F |
| And to that high and haughty banner | E |
| Uplifted palms they proudly hold | F |
| The others watch them glumly grimly | C |
| No sullen proletariat these | G |
| but middle class well clad though dimly | C |
| Who seem to live in decent ease | G |
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| Then sadly they look at each other | E |
| And sigh ans shrug and turn away | H |
| What is the feeling that they smother | E |
| I wonder but it's none too gay | H |
| And as with puzzlement I bide me | C |
| Beneath that rich resplendent rag | D |
| I hear a bitter voice beside me | C |
| It isn't ours it's Franco's flag | D |
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| I'm Right I have no Left obsession | I |
| I hate the Communists like hell | J |
| But after ten years of oppression | I |
| I hate our Franco twice as well | J |
| And hush I keep do not reprove me | C |
| His portrait in a private place | K |
| And every time my bowels move me | C |
| I spit in El Caudillo's face | K |
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| These were the words I heard I swear | L |
| But when I turned around to stare | L |
| Believe me there was no one there | L |
Robert William Service
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