The Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEEB FCFDGGB HCHDIIB JCJDKLB| Of A Ballad Sung By H Plunket Greene To His Old School | A |
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| Twice three hundred boys were we | B |
| Long ago long ago | C |
| Where the Downs look out to the Severn Sea | B |
| Clifton for aye | D |
| We held by the game and hailed the team | E |
| For many could play where few could dream | E |
| City of Song shall stand alway | B |
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| Some were for profit and some for pride | F |
| Long ago long ago | C |
| Some for the flag they lived and died | F |
| Clifton for aye | D |
| The work of the world must still be done | G |
| And minds are many though truth be one | G |
| City of Song shall stand alway | B |
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| But a lad there was to his fellows sang | H |
| Long ago long ago | C |
| And soon the world to his music rang | H |
| Clifton for aye | D |
| Follow your Captains crown your Kings | I |
| But what will ye give to the lad that sings | I |
| City of Song shall stand alway | B |
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| For the voice ye hear is the voice of home | J |
| Long ago long ago | C |
| And the voice of Youth with the world to roam | J |
| Clifton for aye | D |
| The voice of passion and human tears | K |
| And the voice of the vision that lights the years | L |
| City of Song shall stand alway | B |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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