A Song In Time Of Order. 1852 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HAHA GDGD IJIJ GDGD KLML NONO PLPL GDGD HQHQ GDGD| PUSH hard across the sand | A |
| For the salt wind gathers breath | B |
| Shoulder and wrist and hand | A |
| Push hard as the push of death | B |
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| The wind is as iron that rings | C |
| The foam heads loosen and flee | D |
| It swells and welters and swings | C |
| The pulse of the tide of the sea | D |
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| And up on the yellow cliff | E |
| The long corn flickers and shakes | F |
| Push for the wind holds stiff | E |
| And the gunwale dips and rakes | F |
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| Good hap to the fresh fierce weather | G |
| The quiver and beat of the sea | D |
| While three men hold together | G |
| The kingdoms are less by three | D |
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| Out to the sea with her there | H |
| Out with her over the sand | A |
| Let the kings keep the earth for their share | H |
| We have done with the sharers of land | A |
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| They have tied the world in a tether | G |
| They have bought over God with a fee | D |
| While three men hold together | G |
| The kingdoms are less by three | D |
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| We have done with the kisses that sting | I |
| The thief s mouth red from the feast | J |
| The blood on the hands of the king | I |
| And the lie at the lips of the priest | J |
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| Will they tie the winds in a tether | G |
| Put a bit in the jaws of the sea | D |
| While three men hold together | G |
| The kingdoms are less by three | D |
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| Let our flag run out straight in the wind | K |
| The old red shall be floated again | L |
| When the ranks that are thin shall be thinned | M |
| When the names that were twenty are ten | L |
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| When the devil s riddle is mastered | N |
| And the galley bench creaks with a Pope | O |
| We shall see Buonaparte the bastard | N |
| Kick heels with his throat in a rope | O |
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| While the shepherd sets wolves on his sheep | P |
| And the emperor halters his kine | L |
| While Shame is a watchman asleep | P |
| And Faith is a keeper of swine | L |
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| Let the wind shake our flag like a feather | G |
| Like the plumes of the foam of the sea | D |
| While three men hold together | G |
| The kingdoms are less by three | D |
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| All the world has its burdens to bear | H |
| From Cayenne to the Austrian whips | Q |
| Forth with the rain in our hair | H |
| And the salt sweet foam in our lips | Q |
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| In the teeth of the hard glad weather | G |
| In the blown wet face of the sea | D |
| While three men hold together | G |
| The kingdoms are less by three | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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