For All We Have And Are Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFF FFFFFHFH FEFEIFIF FFFF JKLKMNMO| For all we have and are | A |
| For all our children's fate | B |
| Stand up and meet the war | C |
| The Hun is at the gate | B |
| Our world has passed away | D |
| In wantonness o'erthrown | E |
| There is nothing left to day | D |
| But steel and fire and stone | E |
| - | |
| Though all we knew depart | F |
| The old commandments stand | G |
| quot In courage keep your heart | F |
| In strength lift up your hand quot | F |
| - | |
| Once more we hear the word | F |
| That sickened earth of old | F |
| quot No law except the sword | F |
| Unsheathed and uncontrolled quot | F |
| Once more it knits mankind | F |
| Once more the nations go | H |
| To meet and break and bind | F |
| A crazed and driven foe | H |
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| Comfort content delight | F |
| The ages' slow bought gain | E |
| They shrivelled in a night | F |
| Only ourselves remain | E |
| To face the naked days | I |
| In silent fortitude | F |
| Through perils and dismays | I |
| Renewd and re renewed | F |
| - | |
| Though all we made depart | F |
| The old commandments stand | F |
| quot In patience keep your heart | F |
| In strength lift up your hand quot | F |
| - | |
| No easy hopes or lies | J |
| Shall bring us to our goal | K |
| But iron sacrifice | L |
| Of body will and soul | K |
| There is but one task for all | M |
| For each one life to give | N |
| Who stands if freedom fall | M |
| Who dies if England live | O |
Rudyard Kipling
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