Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DEDEFGFG HDHDIJKJ LMLMNJNJ OJOJPJPJ QRQRSASA TUTUJVJV WXWXJYJY| I would not curse your England wise as slow | A |
| Just as unjust in deed | B |
| I can believe that from her heart may flow | A |
| The truest human creed | B |
| She sounded one high call of Liberty | C |
| That despots heard with dread | D |
| I know not what high purpose to be free | C |
| Crowns yet her starry head | D |
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| Do I but raise a ghost Is England dead | D |
| Lies she in lands forlorn | E |
| Shall Kentish orchards never hear the tread | D |
| Of eager life at morn | E |
| Is she but memories of old men and sad | F |
| Since youth has left her side | G |
| Has that vast glory that you dreamed she had | F |
| But perished crucified | G |
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| England Though all her vaunted heroes rise | H |
| From Nile to Flanders red | D |
| Calling you from the long red sunset skies | H |
| You shall remain still dead | D |
| You shall not touch her woods and flowers again | I |
| You shall not sail her Thames | J |
| You shall not see in her soft April rain | K |
| The fairy diadems | J |
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| She cannot honour you You do not feel | L |
| Her tears and pity deep | M |
| Though all her multitudes in homage kneel | L |
| That cannot break your sleep | M |
| That cannot give you back the dew of earth | N |
| The light upon the sea | J |
| The soft sweet ripple of your child s first mirth | N |
| Your immortality | J |
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| In every man there is a great new world | O |
| Perhaps a glorious race | J |
| How can we tell the hero that war hurled | O |
| To death bore not Christ s face | J |
| How can we tell what nobler nations lie | P |
| Now on the fields of France | J |
| What unborn masters of creation cry | P |
| Through murdered white romance | J |
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| I only know you brother of my blood | Q |
| Have gone and many a friend | R |
| Trampled and broken in the Flanders mud | Q |
| Found Youth s most bitter end | R |
| God You are not yet one with the kind dust | S |
| Before new war horns blow | A |
| And sleek limbed statesmen in their halls break trust | S |
| To tell of other woe | A |
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| I speak as if you heard me O my dear | T |
| From England s far off shore | U |
| As if that land fills me with such fear | T |
| Held you not evermore | U |
| I live too much to feel that death must be | J |
| Though men make death to day | V |
| I will not set the blame on Deity | J |
| Of murder tunes they play | V |
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| And yet you have not uttered one poor word | W |
| While these harsh thoughts I weave | X |
| Silent as God No murmur have I heard | W |
| Tis I not you who grieve | X |
| How should I move that vast eternity | J |
| Enough loud my cries and wild | Y |
| No more am I regarded than the sea | J |
| Regards a brawling child | Y |
Zora Bernice May Cross
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