An English Toast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM NONOHMHM| The English soil 'tis hallowed ground | A |
| Its restless children roam | B |
| The world but they have never found | A |
| So dear a land as home | B |
| Their passion for its hills and downs | C |
| Nor space nor time can spoil | D |
| A golden mist of memory crowns | C |
| The good old English soil | D |
| - | |
| The English race its pluck and pith | E |
| Its power to stay and win | F |
| Wise Alfred's dauntless Harold's kith | E |
| And Coeur de Lion's kin | F |
| Sir Philip Sidney Hampden Noll | G |
| Who sat in kingly place | H |
| Wolfe Nelson Wellington and all | I |
| The good old English race | H |
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| The English speech the copious tongue | J |
| Terse vivid plastic fit | K |
| Which Chaucer Spenser loved and sung | J |
| Which gave us Holy Writ | K |
| Which Shakespeare Milton used to write | L |
| Which Taylor used to preach | M |
| And Pitt to speak as we to night | L |
| The good old English speech | M |
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| St George and Merrie England still | N |
| The stirring phrase imparts | O |
| Warmth to the blood and sends a thrill | N |
| Through more than English hearts | O |
| God save Old England by His grace | H |
| We all alike beseech | M |
| Who know the English soil or race | H |
| And speak the English speech | M |
W. M. Mackeracher
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