The Night Of The Lion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDEFEF GHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMN OPOPQHQQH RSRSTUPU VWVWHWHHW WPWTQWQW' And that a reply be received before midnight ' | A |
British Ultimatum | B |
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Their Day was at twelve of the night | C |
When the graves give up their dead | D |
And still from the City no light | C |
Yellows the clouds overhead | D |
Where the Admiral stands there's a star | E |
But his column is lost in the gloom | F |
For the brazen doors are ajar | E |
And the Lion awakes and the doom | F |
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He is not of a chosen race | G |
His strength is the strength of the skies | H |
In whose glory all nations have place | G |
In whose downfall Liberty dies | H |
He is mighty but he is just | I |
He shall live to the end of years | J |
He shall bring the proud to the dust | I |
He shall raise the weak to the spheres | J |
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It is night on the world's great mart | K |
But the brooding hush is awake | L |
With the march of a steady heart | K |
That calls like the drum of Drake | L |
Come And a muttering deep | M |
As the pulse of the distant guns | N |
Or the thunder before the leap | M |
Thro' the rolling thoroughfare runs | N |
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And the wounded men go by | O |
Like thoughts in the Lion's brain | P |
And the clouds lift on high | O |
Like the slow waves of his mane | P |
And the narrowing lids conceal | Q |
The furnaces of his eyes | H |
Their gold is gone out They reveal | Q |
Only two search lights of steel | Q |
Steadily sweeping the skies | H |
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And we hoped he had peace in his lair | R |
Where the bones of old tyrannies lay | S |
And the skulls that his cubs have stripped bare | R |
The old skulls they still toss in their play | S |
But the tyrants are risen again | T |
And the last light dies from their path | U |
For the midnight of his mane | P |
Lifts to the stars with his wrath | U |
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From the East to the West he is crouching | V |
He snuffs at the North East wind | W |
His breast upon Britain is couching | V |
His haunches quiver on Ind | W |
It is night black night where he lies | H |
But a kingdom and a fleet | W |
Shall burn in his terrible eyes | H |
When he leaps and the darkness dies | H |
With the War gods under his feet | W |
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Till the day when a little child | W |
Shall lay but a hand on his mane | P |
And his eyes grow golden and mild | W |
And he stands in the heavens again | T |
Till the day of the seventh seal | Q |
Which the Lion alone shall rend | W |
When the stars from their courses reel | Q |
His Freedom shall not end | W |
Alfred Noyes
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