Prologue To Hawthorn And Lavender Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG| These to the glory and praise of the green land | A |
| That bred my women and that holds my dead | B |
| ENGLAND and with her the strong broods that stand | A |
| Wherever her fighting lines are thrust or spread | B |
| They call us proud Look at our English Rose | C |
| Shedders of blood Where hath our own been spared | D |
| Shopkeepers Our accompt the high GOD knows | C |
| Close In our bounty half the world hath shared | D |
| They hate us and they envy Envy and hate | E |
| Should drive them to the PIT'S edge Be it so | F |
| That race is damned which misesteems its fate | E |
| And this in GOD'S good time they all shall know | F |
| And know you too you good green ENGLAND then | G |
| Mother of mothering girls and governing men | G |
William Ernest Henley
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