The Reeds Of Runnymede Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCCB BBDBEB FFFBGH B BBBBBIIB JJJBKKKB| Magna Charta June | A |
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| At Runnymede At Runnymede | B |
| What say the reeds at Runnymede | B |
| The lissom reeds that give and take | C |
| That bend so far but never break | C |
| They keep the sleepy Thames awake | C |
| With tales of John at Runnymede | B |
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| At Runnymede at Runnymede | B |
| Oh hear the reeds at Runnymede | B |
| quot You mustn't sell delay deny | D |
| A freeman's right or liberty | B |
| It makes the stubborn Englishry | E |
| We saw 'em roused at Runnymede | B |
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| quot When through our ranks the Barons came | F |
| With little thought of praise or blame | F |
| But resolute to pay a game | F |
| They lumbered up to Runnymede | B |
| And there they launched in solid time | G |
| The first attack on Right Divine | H |
| The curt uncompromising 'Sign ' | - |
| That settled John at Runnymede | B |
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| quot At Runnymede at Runnymede | B |
| Your rights were won at Runnymede | B |
| No freeman shall be fined or bound | B |
| Or dispossessed or freehold ground | B |
| Except by lawful judgment found | B |
| And passed upon him by his peers | I |
| Forget not after all these years | I |
| The Charter Signed at Runnymede quot | B |
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| And still when Mob or Monarch lays | J |
| Too rude hand on English ways | J |
| The whisper wakes the shudder plays | J |
| Across the reeds at Runnymede | B |
| And Tames that knows the moods of kings | K |
| And crowds and priests and suchlike things | K |
| Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings | K |
| Their warning down from Runnymede | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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