England's Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCDDEEEEEEEEFFEE GGHHIIEEJJ| Truly ye come of The Blood slower to bless than to ban | A |
| Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man | A |
| Flesh of the flesh that I bred bone of the bone that I bare | B |
| Stark as your sons shall be stern as your fathers were | C |
| Deeper than speech our love stronger than life our tether | C |
| But we do not fall on the neck nor kiss when we come together | C |
| My arm is nothing weak my strength is not gone by | D |
| Sons I have borne many sons but my dugs are not dry | D |
| Look I have made ye a place and opened wide the doors | E |
| That ye may talk together your Barons and Councillors | E |
| Wards of the Outer March Lords of the Lower Seas | E |
| Ay talk to your gray mother that bore you on her knees | E |
| That ye may talk together brother to brother's face | E |
| Thus for the good of your peoples thus for the Pride of the Race | E |
| Also we will make promise So long as The Blood endures | E |
| I shall know that your good is mine ye shall feel that my strength is yours | E |
| In the day of Armageddon at the last great fight of all | F |
| That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall | F |
| Draw now the threefold knot firm on the ninefold bands | E |
| And the Law that ye make shall be law after the rule of your lands | E |
| This for the waxen Heath and that for the Wattle bloom | G |
| This for the Maple leaf and that for the southern Broom | G |
| The Law that ye make shall be law and I do not press my will | H |
| Because ye are Sons of The Blood and call me Mother still | H |
| Now must ye speak to your kinsmen and they must speak to you | I |
| After the use of the English in straight flung words and few | I |
| Go to your work and be strong halting not in your ways | E |
| Balking the end half won for an instant dole of praise | E |
| Stand to your work and be wise certain of sword and pen | J |
| Who are neither children nor Gods but men in a world of men | J |
Rudyard Kipling
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