Ave Imperatrix! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM FNFN| From every quarter of your land | A |
| They give God thanks who turned away | B |
| Death and the needy madman's hand | A |
| Death fraught which menaced you that day | B |
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| One school of many made to make | C |
| Men who shall hold it dearest right | D |
| To battle for their ruler's sake | C |
| And stake their being in the fight | D |
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| Sends greeting humble and sincere | E |
| Though verse be rude and poor and mean | F |
| To you the greatest as most dear | E |
| Victoria by God's grace Our Queen | F |
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| Such greeting as should come from those | G |
| Whose fathers faced the Sepoy hordes | H |
| Or served you in the Russian snows | G |
| And dying left their sons their swords | H |
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| And some of us have fought for you | I |
| Already in the Afghan pass | J |
| Or where the scarce seen smoke puffs flew | I |
| From Boer marksmen in the grass | J |
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| And all are bred to do your will | K |
| By land and sea wherever flies | L |
| The Flag to fight and follow still | K |
| And work your Empire's destinies | M |
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| Once more we greet you though unseen | F |
| Our greeting be and coming slow | N |
| Trust us if need arise O Queen | F |
| We shall not tarry with the blow | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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