The Searchlights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABACC DEDEFF GHGHIA JKJKLL BMBNOO PAPAQQ RSRSJJ| Political morality differs from individual morality because there is no power above the State General von Bernardi | A |
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| Shadow by shadow stripped for fight | B |
| The lean black cruisers search the sea | A |
| Night long their level shafts of light | B |
| Revolve and find no enemy | A |
| Only they know each leaping wave | C |
| May hide the lightning and their grave | C |
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| And in the land they guard so well | D |
| Is there no silent watch to keep | E |
| An age is dying and the bell | D |
| Rings midnight on a vaster deep | E |
| But over all its waves once more | F |
| The searchlights move from shore to shore | F |
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| And captains that we thought were dead | G |
| And dreamers that we thought were dumb | H |
| And voices that we thought were fled | G |
| Arise and call us and we come | H |
| And Search in thine own soul they cry | I |
| For there too lurks thine enemy | A |
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| Search for the foe in thine own soul | J |
| The sloth the intellectual pride | K |
| The trivial jest that veils the goal | J |
| For which our father lived and died | K |
| The lawless dreams the cynic Art | L |
| That rend thy nobler self apart | L |
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| Not far not far into the night | B |
| These level swords of light can pierce | M |
| Yet for her faith does England fight | B |
| Her faith in this our universe | N |
| Believing Truth and Justice draw | O |
| From founts of everlasting law | O |
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| The law that rules the stars our stay | P |
| Our compass through the world's wide sea | A |
| The one sure light the one sure way | P |
| The one firm base of Liberty | A |
| The one firm road that men have trod | Q |
| Through Chaos to the throne of God | Q |
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| Therefore a Power above the State | R |
| The unconquerable Power returns | S |
| The fire the fire that made her great | R |
| Once more upon her altar burns | S |
| Once more redeemed and healed and whole | J |
| She moves to the Eternal Goal | J |
Alfred Noyes
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