England To Germany In 1914 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDBED CFCAAGAAG H| O England may God punish thee | A |
| Is it that Teuton genius flowers | B |
| Only to breathe malignity | C |
| Upon its friend of earlier hours | B |
| We have eaten your bread you have eaten ours | B |
| We have loved your burgs your pines' green moan | D |
| Fair Rhine stream and its storied towers | B |
| Your shining souls of deathless dowers | E |
| Have won us as they were our own | D |
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| We have nursed no dreams to shed your blood | C |
| We have matched your might not rancorously | F |
| Save a flushed few whose blatant mood | C |
| You heard and marked as well as we | A |
| To tongue not in their country's key | A |
| But yet you cry with face aflame | G |
| O England may God punish thee | A |
| And foul in onward history | A |
| And present sight your ancient name | G |
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| Autumn | H |
Thomas Hardy
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