The Jingo And The Minstrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFBC GCCHCAIJI KLHMHHENE HOPCPECCC ECCCHQCQ HRCECNCSC HCTCTHCJC ECCCSESE UHVHECHC CSTSHCHC EHCHEEEEAn Argument for the Maintenance of Peace and Goodwill | A |
with the Japanese People | B |
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Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty Jimmu Tenno | C |
ancestor of all the Japanese Emperors Nikko Japan's | D |
loveliest shrine Iyeyasu her greatest statesman Bushido | E |
her code of knighthood The Forty seven Ronins her classic | F |
heroes Nogi her latest hero Fuji her most beautiful | B |
mountain | C |
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The minstrel speaks | G |
Now do you know of Avalon | C |
That sailors call Japan | C |
She holds as rare a chivalry | H |
As ever bled for man | C |
King Arthur sleeps at Nikko hill | A |
Where Iyeyasu lies | I |
And there the broad Pendragon flag | J |
In deathless splendor flies | I |
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The jingo answers | K |
Nay minstrel but the great ships come | L |
From out the sunset sea | H |
We cannot greet the souls they bring | M |
With welcome high and free | H |
How can the Nippon nondescripts | H |
That weird and dreadful band | E |
Be aught but what we find them here | N |
The blasters of the land | E |
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The minstrel replies | H |
First race first men from anywhere | O |
To face you eye to eye | P |
For that do you curse Avalon | C |
And raise a hue and cry | P |
These toilers cannot kiss your hand | E |
Or fawn with hearts bowed down | C |
Be glad for them and Avalon | C |
And Arthur's ghostly crown | C |
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No doubt your guests with sage debate | E |
In grave things gentlemen | C |
Will let your trade and farms alone | C |
And turn them back again | C |
But why should brawling braggarts rise | H |
With hasty words of shame | Q |
To drive them back like dogs and swine | C |
Who in due honor came | Q |
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The jingo answers | H |
We cannot give them honor sir | R |
We give them scorn for scorn | C |
And Rumor steals around the world | E |
All white skinned men to warn | C |
Against this sleek silk merchant here | N |
And viler coolie man | C |
And wrath within the courts of war | S |
Brews on against Japan | C |
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The minstrel replies | H |
Must Avalon with hope forlorn | C |
Her back against the wall | T |
Have lived her brilliant life in vain | C |
While ruder tribes take all | T |
Must Arthur stand with Asian Celts | H |
A ghost with spear and crown | C |
Behind the great Pendragon flag | J |
And be again cut down | C |
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Tho Europe's self shall move against | E |
High Jimmu Tenno's throne | C |
The Forty seven Ronin Men | C |
Will not be found alone | C |
For Percival and Bedivere | S |
And Nogi side by side | E |
Will stand with mourning Merlin there | S |
Tho all go down in pride | E |
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But has the world the envious dream | U |
Ah such things cannot be | H |
To tear their fairy land like silk | V |
And toss it in the sea | H |
Must venom rob the future day | E |
The ultimate world man | C |
Of rare Bushido code of codes | H |
The fair heart of Japan | C |
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Go be the guest of Avalon | C |
Believe me it lies there | S |
Behind the mighty gray sea wall | T |
Where heathen bend in prayer | S |
Where peasants lift adoring eyes | H |
To Fuji's crown of snow | C |
King Arthur's knights will be your hosts | H |
So cleanse your heart and go | C |
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And you will find but gardens sweet | E |
Prepared beyond the seas | H |
And you will find but gentlefolk | C |
Beneath the cherry trees | H |
So walk you worthy of your Christ | E |
Tho church bells do not sound | E |
And weave the bands of brotherhood | E |
On Jimmu Tenno's ground | E |
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