Edgehill Fight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDED FGFGFH IJIJIJ KLMLKL NONONO| Naked and grey the Cotswolds stand | A |
| Beneath the summer sun | B |
| And the stubble fields on either hand | A |
| Where Sour and Avon run | B |
| There is no change in the patient land | A |
| That has bred us every one | B |
| - | |
| She should have passed in cloud and fire | C |
| And saved us from this sin | D |
| Of war red war 'twixt child and sire | C |
| Household and kith and kin | D |
| In the heart of a sleepy Midland shire | E |
| With the harvest scarcely in | D |
| - | |
| But there is no change as we meet at last | F |
| On the brow head or the plain | G |
| And the raw astonished ranks stand fast | F |
| To slay or to be slain | G |
| By the men they knew in the kindly past | F |
| That shall never come again | H |
| - | |
| By the men they met at dance or chase | I |
| In the tavern or the hall | J |
| At the justice bench and the market place | I |
| At the cudgel play or brawl | J |
| Of their own blood and speech and race | I |
| Comrades or neighbors all | J |
| - | |
| More bitter than death this day must prove | K |
| Whichever way it go | L |
| For the brothers of the maids we love | M |
| Make ready to lay low | L |
| Their sisters' sweethearts as we move | K |
| Against our dearest foe | L |
| - | |
| Thank Heaven At last the trumpets peal | N |
| Before our strength gives way | O |
| For King or for the Commonweal | N |
| No matter which they say | O |
| The first dry rattle of new drawn steel | N |
| Changes the world today | O |
Rudyard Kipling
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