The American Rebellion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDCD EFEFBBBB G HIHI JFJD KLML NCNC BBBB ALOL PBPB| Before | A |
| Twas not while England's sword unsheathed | B |
| Put half a world to flight | B |
| Nor while their new built cities breathed | B |
| Secure behind her might | B |
| Not while she poured from Pole to Line | C |
| Treasure and ships and men | D |
| These worshippers at Freedoms shrine | C |
| They did not quit her then | D |
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| Not till their toes were driven forth | E |
| By England o'er the main | F |
| Not till the Frenchman from the North | E |
| Had gone with shattered Spain | F |
| Not till the clean swept oceans showed | B |
| No hostile flag unrolled | B |
| Did they remember that they owed | B |
| To Freedom and were bold | B |
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| After | G |
| - | |
| The snow lies thick on Valley Forge | H |
| The ice on the Delaware | I |
| But the poor dead soldiers of King George | H |
| They neither know nor care | I |
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| Not though the earliest primrose break | J |
| On the sunny side of the lane | F |
| And scuffling rookeries awake | J |
| Their England' s spring again | D |
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| They will not stir when the drifts are gone | K |
| Or the ice melts out of the bay | L |
| And the men that served with Washington | M |
| Lie all as still as they | L |
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| They will not stir though the mayflower blows | N |
| In the moist dark woods of pine | C |
| And every rock strewn pasture shows | N |
| Mullein and columbine | C |
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| Each for his land in a fair fight | B |
| Encountered strove and died | B |
| And the kindly earth that knows no spite | B |
| Covers them side by side | B |
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| She is too busy to think of war | A |
| She has all the world to make gay | L |
| And behold the yearly flowers are | O |
| Where they were in our fathers' day | L |
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| Golden rod by the pasture wall | P |
| When the columbine is dead | B |
| And sumach leaves that turn in fall | P |
| Bright as the blood they shed | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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