Lines On The Expected Invasion, 1803 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCCDDEFEGGHHIIJJ| COME ye who if which Heaven avert the Land | A |
| Were with herself at strife would take your stand | A |
| Like gallant Falkland by the Monarch's side | B |
| And like Montrose make Loyalty your pride | B |
| Come ye who not less zealous might display | C |
| Banners at enmity with regal sway | C |
| And like the Pyms and Miltons of that day | C |
| Think that a State would live in sounder health | D |
| If Kingship bowed its head to Commonwealth | D |
| Ye too whom no discreditable fear | E |
| Would keep perhaps with many a fruitless tear | F |
| Uncertain what to choose and how to steer | E |
| And ye who might mistake for sober sense | G |
| And wise reserve the plea of indolence | G |
| Come ye whate'er your creed O waken all | H |
| Whate'er your temper at your Country's call | H |
| Resolving this a free born Nation can | I |
| To have one Soul and perish to a man | I |
| Or save this honoured Land from every Lord | J |
| But British reason and the British sword | J |
William Wordsworth
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