The English Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHG CDC CICI GCG CDA CJCK CCCC LMLM GCG GCGC CACA CCCC CCCC NBOB CP C| After the fight at Otterburn | A |
| Before the ravens came | B |
| The Witch wife rode across the fern | A |
| And spoke Earl Percy's name | B |
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| 'Stand up stand up Northumberland | C |
| I bid you answer true | D |
| If England's King has under his hand | C |
| A Captain as good as you ' | - |
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| Then up and spake the dead Percy | E |
| Oh but his wound was sore | F |
| 'Five hundred Captains as good ' said he | E |
| 'And I trow five hundred more | F |
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| 'But I pray you by the lifting skies | G |
| And the young wind over the grass | H |
| That you take your eyes from off my eyes | G |
| And let my spirit pass ' | - |
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| 'Stand up stand up Northumberland | C |
| I charge you answer true | D |
| If ever you dealt in steel and brand | C |
| How went the fray with you ' | - |
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| 'Hither and yon ' the Percy said | C |
| 'As every fight must go | I |
| For some they fought and some they fled | C |
| And some struck ne'er a blow | I |
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| 'But I pray you by the breaking skies | G |
| And the first call from the nest | C |
| That you turn your eyes away from my eyes | G |
| And let me to my rest ' | - |
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| 'Stand up stand up Northumberland | C |
| I will that you answer true | D |
| If you and your men were quick again | A |
| How would it be with you ' | - |
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| 'Oh we would speak of hawk and hound | C |
| And the red deer where they rove | J |
| And the merry foxes the country round | C |
| And the maidens that we love | K |
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| 'We would not speak of steel or steed | C |
| Except to grudge the cost | C |
| And he that had done the doughtiest deed | C |
| Would mock himself the most | C |
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| 'But I pray you by my keep and tower | L |
| And the tables in my hall | M |
| And I pray you by my lady's bower | L |
| Ah bitterest of all | M |
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| 'That you lift your eyes from outen my eyes | G |
| Your hand from off my breast | C |
| And cover my face from the red sun rise | G |
| And loose me to my rest ' | - |
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| She has taken her eyes from out of his eyes | G |
| Her palm from off his breast | C |
| And covered his face from the red sun rise | G |
| And loosed him to his rest | C |
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| 'Sleep you or wake Northumberland | C |
| You shall not speak again | A |
| And the word you have said 'twixt quick and dead | C |
| I lay on Englishmen | A |
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| 'So long as Severn runs to West | C |
| Or Humber to the East | C |
| That they who bore themselves the best | C |
| Shall count themselves the least | C |
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| 'While there is fighting at the ford | C |
| Or flood along the Tweed | C |
| That they shall choose the lesser word | C |
| To cloke the greater deed | C |
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| 'After the quarry and the kill | N |
| The fair fight and the fame | B |
| With an ill face and an ill grace | O |
| Shall they rehearse the same | B |
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| 'Greater the deed greater the need | C |
| Lightly to laugh it away | P |
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| Shall be the mark of the English breed | C |
| Until the Judgment Day ' | - |
Rudyard Kipling
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