The Men Who Man Our Batteries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDCD BEBEBFBF BGBGHIHI JKLKHMHM HHHHNONO LPLPQRQR LHLHCBCB NSNSQHQHThe men who man our batteries | A |
The men who serve our guns | B |
They need not honeyed flatteries | B |
For they are Britain's sons | B |
They go when Duty speeds them | C |
Wherever bullets fly | D |
Wherever England needs them | C |
When Duty bids they die | D |
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The men who man our strongholds | B |
Or march to yonder field | E |
Where Valour against Wrong holds | B |
A realm that scorns to yield | E |
From Chiltern Hills or Grampians | B |
May pour their living tide | F |
But all are England's champions | B |
And all are England's pride | F |
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And lo how the abhorrence | B |
Of sceptred crime can join | G |
The Thames and the St Lawrence | B |
The Liffey and the Boyne | G |
For England need but ask aid | H |
Where'er her branches grow | I |
And like a leaping cascade | H |
It thunders on the foe | I |
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Our cheery sailors lapt in | J |
The maiden sea's light sleep | K |
From commodore and captain | L |
To all who man the deep | K |
They hear around their bed nought | H |
But echoes of their fame | M |
And well they man the Dreadnought | H |
Who dread not aught but shame | M |
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And whether calmly harboured | H |
Or when the rocking State | H |
Lurches to port and starboard | H |
They sail the seas of Fate | H |
With everlasting laughter | N |
They luff to wind and rain | O |
Aforetime and hereafter | N |
The men who man the main | O |
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The men who man Great Britain | L |
And fight for royal George | P |
On battle's anvil smitten | L |
Leap mightier from the forge | P |
Like oaks in Orkney's rough spring | Q |
They flourish torn and blown | R |
For all are Honour's offspring | Q |
And all are England's own | R |
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The men who man this nation | L |
And sow her fame abroad | H |
They ask not acclamation | L |
They need not England's laud | H |
And when too late it finds them | C |
And falls on lifeless ears | B |
Where yon red tempest blinds them | C |
They need but England's tears | B |
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Yet while the storm grows vaster | N |
Around them and above | S |
In triumph or disaster | N |
They shall not lack our love | S |
They who to Glory's fanning | Q |
This streamer have unfurled | H |
The men whose joy is manning | Q |
The men who man the world | H |
William Watson
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