The Volunteer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE| He leap to arms unbidden | A |
| Unneeded over bold | B |
| His face by earth is hidden | A |
| His heart in earth is cold | B |
| - | |
| Curse on the reckless daring | C |
| That could not wait the call | D |
| The proud fantastic bearing | C |
| That would be first to fall | D |
| - | |
| O tears of human passion | A |
| Blue not the image true | E |
| This was not folly's fashion | A |
| This was the man we knew | E |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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