Northumberland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDCCDBEBBEBBBBB ABAABBFBBFGHGGHBIBBI JKJJKLBLLB| Between our eastward and our westward sea | A |
| The narrowing strand | B |
| Clasps close the noblest shore fame holds in fee | A |
| Even here where English birth seals all men free | A |
| Northumberland | B |
| The sea mists meet across it when the snow | C |
| Clothes moor and fell | D |
| And bid their true born hearts who love it glow | C |
| For joy that none less nobly born may know | C |
| What love knows well | D |
| The splendour and the strength of storm and fight | B |
| Sustain the song | E |
| That filled our fathers' hearts with joy to smite | B |
| To live to love to lay down life that right | B |
| Might tread down wrong | E |
| They warred they sang they triumphed and they passed | B |
| And left us glad | B |
| Here to be born their sons whose hearts hold fast | B |
| The proud old love no change can overcast | B |
| No chance leave sad | B |
| None save our northmen ever none but we | A |
| Met pledged or fought | B |
| Such foes and friends as Scotland and the sea | A |
| With heart so high and equal strong in glee | A |
| And stern in thought | B |
| Thought fed from time's memorial springs with pride | B |
| Made strong as fire | F |
| Their hearts who hurled the foe down Flodden side | B |
| And hers who rode the waves none else durst ride | B |
| None save her sire | F |
| O land beloved where nought of legend's dream | G |
| Outshines the truth | H |
| Where Joyous Gard closed round with clouds that gleam | G |
| For them that know thee not can scarce but seem | G |
| Too sweet for sooth | H |
| Thy sons forget not nor shall fame forget | B |
| The deed there done | I |
| Before the walls whose fabled fame is yet | B |
| A light too sweet and strong to rise and set | B |
| With moon and sun | I |
| Song bright as flash of swords or oars that shine | J |
| Through fight or foam | K |
| Stirs yet the blood thou hast given thy sons like wine | J |
| To hail in each bright ballad hailed as thine | J |
| One heart one home | K |
| Our Collingwood though Nelson be not ours | L |
| By him shall stand | B |
| Immortal till those waifs of oldworld hours | L |
| Forgotten leave uncrowned with bays and flowers | L |
| Northumberland | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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