The House Of The Commonwealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDBCD EFGEFG HIJHIJ KLMLNONPQRRQSS TTUVVU WWXYZX SA2SB2S SSC2C2C2D2D2E2E2E2E2 F2F2F2VSSVG2G2G2G2H2 I2J2J2SC2SC2JC2K2J| A | |
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| We sent a word across the seas that said | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The house is finished and the doors are wide | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Come enter in | D |
| A stately house it is with tables spread | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where men in liberty and love abide | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With hearts akin | D |
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| Behold how high our hands have lifted it | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The soil it stands upon is pure and sweet | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As are our skies | G |
| Our title deeds in holy sweat are writ | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not red accusing blood and 'neath our feet | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No foeman lies | G |
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| And England Mother England leans her face | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Upon her hand and feels her blood burn young | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp At what she sees | J |
| The image here of that fair strength and grace | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp That made her feared and loved and sought and sung | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Through centuries | J |
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| What chorus shall we lift what song of joy | K |
| What boom of seaward cannon roll of drums | L |
| The majesty of nationhood demands | M |
| A burst of royal sounds as when a victor comes | L |
| From peril of a thousand foes | N |
| An empire's honour saved from death | O |
| Brought home again an added rose | N |
| Of victory upon its wreath | P |
| In this wise men have greeted kings | Q |
| In name or fame | R |
| But such acclaim | R |
| Were vain and emptiest of things | Q |
| If love were silent drawn apart | S |
| And mute the People's mighty heart | S |
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| The love that ivy like an ancient land doth cherish | T |
| It grows not in a day nor in a year doth perish | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But little leaf by leaf | U |
| It creeps along the walls and wreathes the ramparts hoary | V |
| The sun that gives it strength it is a nation's glory | V |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The dew a people's grief | U |
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| The love that ivy like around a home land lingers | W |
| With soft embrace of breast and green caressive fingers | W |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp We are too young to know | X |
| Not ours the glory dome the monuments and arches | Y |
| At thought of which takes arms the blood and proudly marches | Z |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Exultant o'er the foe | X |
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| Green lands undesolated | S |
| For no avengement cry | A2 |
| No feud of race unsated | S |
| Leaps out again to triumph | B2 |
| Leaps out again to triumph or to die | S |
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| Attendant here to day in heart and mind | S |
| Must be all lovers of mankind | S |
| Attendant too the souls sublime | C2 |
| The Prophet souls of every clime | C2 |
| Who living in a tyrant's time | C2 |
| Yet thought and wrought and sought to break | D2 |
| The chains about mankind and make | D2 |
| A man where men had made a slave | E2 |
| Who all intent to lift and save | E2 |
| Beheld the flag of Freedom wave | E2 |
| And scorned the prison or the grave | E2 |
| For whom the darkness failed to mar | F2 |
| The vision of a world afar | F2 |
| The shining of the Morning Star | F2 |
| Attendant here then they must be | V |
| And gathering close with eyes elate | S |
| Behold the vision of a State | S |
| Where men are equal just and free | V |
| A State that hath no stain upon her | G2 |
| No taint to hurt her maiden honour | G2 |
| A Home where love and kindness centre | G2 |
| A People's House where all may enter | G2 |
| And being entered meet no dearth | H2 |
| Of welcome round a common hearth | I2 |
| A People's House not built of stone | J2 |
| Nor wrought by hand and brain alone | J2 |
| But formed and founded on the heart | S |
| A People's House A People's Home | C2 |
| En isled in foam and far apart | S |
| A People's House where all may roam | C2 |
| The many rooms and be at ease | J |
| A People's House with tower and dome | C2 |
| And over all a People's Flag | K2 |
| A Flag upon the breeze | J |
Roderic Quinn
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