England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKLL MMDN| We have no grass locked up in ice so fast | A |
| That cattle cut their faces and at last | A |
| When it is reached must lie them down and starve | B |
| With bleeding mouths that freeze too hard to move | C |
| We have not that delirious state of cold | D |
| That makes men warm and sing when in Death's hold | D |
| We have no roaring floods whose angry shocks | E |
| Can kill the fishes dashed against their rocks | E |
| We have no winds that cut down street by street | F |
| As easy as our scythes can cut down wheat | F |
| No mountains here to spew their burning hearts | G |
| Into the valleys on our human parts | G |
| No earthquakes here that ring church bells afar | H |
| A hundred miles from where those earthquakes are | H |
| We have no cause to set our dreaming eyes | I |
| Like Arabs on fresh streams in Paradise | J |
| We have no wilds to harbour men that tell | K |
| More murders than they can remember well | K |
| No woman here shall wake from her night's rest | L |
| To find a snake is sucking at her breast | L |
| Though I have travelled many and many a mile | M |
| And had a man to clean my boots and smile | M |
| With teeth that had less bone in them than gold | D |
| Give me this England now for all my world | N |
William Henry Davies
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