Our Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABABA CACADADA EFEFGBGB HIHIFJFJ KLKLDBDB| Our men they are our stronghold | A |
| Our bastioned wall unscaled | A |
| Who against Hate and Wrong hold | A |
| This Realm that never quailed | A |
| Who bear the noblest burden | B |
| Life lays on shoulders broad | A |
| Asking not fame or guerdon | B |
| Asking not gold or laud | A |
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| They go where England speeds them | C |
| They laugh and jest at Fate | A |
| They go where England needs them | C |
| And dream not they are great | A |
| And oft 'mid smoke and smother | D |
| By blinding warstorm fanned | A |
| Sons of our mighty Mother | D |
| They fall that she may stand | A |
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| Our sailors save when sleeping | E |
| The light sleep of the sea | F |
| Their ancient watch are keeping | E |
| Mother for thine and thee | F |
| They guard thy maiden daughters | G |
| From worse than death or pain | B |
| The men who ward the waters | G |
| The men who man the main | B |
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| When navies meet and wrestle | H |
| And their vast arms strike home | I |
| Vessel with monstrous vessel | H |
| Matched on the flame lit foam | I |
| What fleet returns in glory | F |
| What fleet makes haste to fly | J |
| O Sea that knowest our story | F |
| Thou thou canst best reply | J |
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| Then hail to all who gave us | K |
| Their might of arm and soul | L |
| Hot and athirst to save us | K |
| To heal and keep us whole | L |
| Whether they serve where yonder | D |
| Far burrowing trenches run | B |
| Or where the ocean thunder | D |
| Peals with the thundering gun | B |
William Watson
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