The Fleet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCD A EFEFD A CGCGD H IJIJD| I | A |
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| You you if you shall fail to understand | B |
| What England is and what her all in all | C |
| On you will come the curse of all the land | B |
| Should this old England fall | C |
| Which Nelson left so great | D |
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| II | A |
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| His isle the mightiest Ocean power on earth | E |
| Our own fair isle the lord of every sea | F |
| Her fuller franchise what would that be worth | E |
| Her ancient fame of Free | F |
| Where she a fallen state | D |
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| III | A |
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| Her dauntless army scatter'd and so small | C |
| Her island myriads fed from alien lands | G |
| The fleet of England is her all in all | C |
| Her fleet is in your hands | G |
| And in her fleet her fate | D |
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| IV | H |
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| You you that have the ordering of her fleet | I |
| If you should only compass her disgrace | J |
| When all men starve the wild mob's million feet | I |
| Will kick you from your place | J |
| But then too late too late | D |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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