Song - Men Of England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDBD EFEF GHGH IJKL GMGM NGNG| Men of England who inherit | A |
| Rights that cost your sires their blood | B |
| Men whose undegenerate spirit | A |
| Has been proved on field and flood | B |
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| By the foes you 've fought uncounted | C |
| By the glorious deeds ye 've done | D |
| Trophies captured breaches mounted | B |
| Navies conquered kingdoms won | D |
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| Yet remember England gathers | E |
| Hence but fruitless wreaths of fame | F |
| If the freedom of your fathers | E |
| Glow not in your hearts the same | F |
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| What are monuments of bravery | G |
| Where no public virtues bloom | H |
| What avail in lands of slavery | G |
| Trophied temples arch and tomb | H |
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| Pageants Let the world revere us | I |
| For our people's rights and laws | J |
| And the breasts of civic heroes | K |
| Bared in Freedom's holy cause | L |
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| Yours are Hampden's Russell's glory | G |
| Sidney's matchless shade is yours | M |
| Martyrs in heroic story | G |
| Worth a hundred Agincourts | M |
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| We 're the sons of sires that baffled | N |
| Crowned and mitred tyranny | G |
| They defied the field and scaffold | N |
| For their birthrights so will we | G |
Thomas Campbell
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