England My Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE BFGH FEEI JFKL FFMH FFGF NFJL A KBMO PPPQ RFFS FFTH UUUO FFFV A WFBE MFJA OXOY OEFF ZWBW JWBE FFWA2 EOBE B2BBW C2WWD2 MJBE| I | A |
| - | |
| England my mother | B |
| Wardress of waters | C |
| Builder of peoples | D |
| Maker of men | E |
| - | |
| Hast thou yet leisure | B |
| Left for the muses | F |
| Heed'st thou the songsmith | G |
| Forging the rhyme | H |
| - | |
| Deafened with tumults | F |
| How canst thou hearken | E |
| Strident is faction | E |
| Demos is loud | I |
| - | |
| Lazarus hungry | J |
| Menaces Dives | F |
| Labour the giant | K |
| Chafes in his hold | L |
| - | |
| Yet do the songsmiths | F |
| Quit not their forges | F |
| Still on life's anvil | M |
| Forge they the rhyme | H |
| - | |
| Still the rapt faces | F |
| Glow from the furnace | F |
| Breath of the smithy | G |
| Scorches their brows | F |
| - | |
| Yea and thou hear'st them | N |
| So shall the hammers | F |
| Fashion not vainly | J |
| Verses of gold | L |
| - | |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Lo with the ancient | K |
| Roots of man's nature | B |
| Twines the eternal | M |
| Passion of song | O |
| - | |
| Ever Love fans it | P |
| Ever Life feeds it | P |
| Time cannot age it | P |
| Death cannot slay | Q |
| - | |
| Deep in the world heart | R |
| Stand its foundations | F |
| Tangled with all things | F |
| Twin made with all | S |
| - | |
| Nay what is Nature's | F |
| Self but an endless | F |
| Strife toward music | T |
| Euphony rhyme | H |
| - | |
| Trees in their blooming | U |
| Tides in their flowing | U |
| Stars in their circling | U |
| Tremble with song | O |
| - | |
| God on His throne is | F |
| Eldest of poets | F |
| Unto His measures | F |
| Moveth the Whole | V |
| - | |
| - | |
| III | A |
| - | |
| Therefore deride not | W |
| Speech of the muses | F |
| England my mother | B |
| Maker of men | E |
| - | |
| Nations are mortal | M |
| Fragile is greatness | F |
| Fortune may fly thee | J |
| Song shall not fly | A |
| - | |
| Song the all girdling | O |
| Song cannot perish | X |
| Men shall make music | O |
| Man shall give ear | Y |
| - | |
| Not while the choric | O |
| Chant of creation | E |
| Floweth from all things | F |
| Poured without pause | F |
| - | |
| Cease we to echo | Z |
| Faintly the descant | W |
| Whereto for ever | B |
| Dances the world | W |
| - | |
| - | |
| IV | - |
| - | |
| So let the songsmith | J |
| Proffer his rhyme gift | W |
| England my mother | B |
| Maker of men | E |
| - | |
| Gray grows thy count'nance | F |
| Full of the ages | F |
| Time on thy forehead | W |
| Sits like a dream | A2 |
| - | |
| Song is the potion | E |
| All things renewing | O |
| Youth's one elixir | B |
| Fountain of morn | E |
| - | |
| Thou at the world loom | B2 |
| Weaving thy future | B |
| Fitly may'st temper | B |
| Toil with delight | W |
| - | |
| Deemest thou labour | C2 |
| Only is earnest | W |
| Grave is all beauty | W |
| Solemn is joy | D2 |
| - | |
| Song is no bauble | M |
| Slight not the songsmith | J |
| England my mother | B |
| Maker of men | E |
William Watson
(3)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about England My Mother poem by William Watson
Best Poems of William Watson