The Men Who Man Our Batteries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDCD BEBEBFBF BGBGHIHI JKLKHMHM HHHHNONO LPLPQRQR LHLHCBCB NSNSQHQH

The men who man our batteriesA
The men who serve our gunsB
They need not honeyed flatteriesB
For they are Britain's sonsB
They go when Duty speeds themC
Wherever bullets flyD
Wherever England needs themC
When Duty bids they dieD
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The men who man our strongholdsB
Or march to yonder fieldE
Where Valour against Wrong holdsB
A realm that scorns to yieldE
From Chiltern Hills or GrampiansB
May pour their living tideF
But all are England's championsB
And all are England's prideF
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And lo how the abhorrenceB
Of sceptred crime can joinG
The Thames and the St LawrenceB
The Liffey and the BoyneG
For England need but ask aidH
Where'er her branches growI
And like a leaping cascadeH
It thunders on the foeI
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Our cheery sailors lapt inJ
The maiden sea's light sleepK
From commodore and captainL
To all who man the deepK
They hear around their bed noughtH
But echoes of their fameM
And well they man the DreadnoughtH
Who dread not aught but shameM
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And whether calmly harbouredH
Or when the rocking StateH
Lurches to port and starboardH
They sail the seas of FateH
With everlasting laughterN
They luff to wind and rainO
Aforetime and hereafterN
The men who man the mainO
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The men who man Great BritainL
And fight for royal GeorgeP
On battle's anvil smittenL
Leap mightier from the forgeP
Like oaks in Orkney's rough springQ
They flourish torn and blownR
For all are Honour's offspringQ
And all are England's ownR
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The men who man this nationL
And sow her fame abroadH
They ask not acclamationL
They need not England's laudH
And when too late it finds themC
And falls on lifeless earsB
Where yon red tempest blinds themC
They need but England's tearsB
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Yet while the storm grows vasterN
Around them and aboveS
In triumph or disasterN
They shall not lack our loveS
They who to Glory's fanningQ
This streamer have unfurledH
The men whose joy is manningQ
The men who man the worldH

William Watson



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