On The Death Of Colonel Benson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDCDD| Northumberland so proud and sad to day | A |
| Weep and rejoice our mother whom no son | B |
| More glorious than this dead and deathless one | B |
| Brought ever fame whereon no time shall prey | A |
| Nor heed we more than he what liars dare say | A |
| Of mercy's holiest duties left undone | B |
| Toward whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none | B |
| Save we had spared or feared to starve and slay | A |
| Alone as Milton and as Wordsworth found | C |
| And hailed their England when from all around | C |
| Howled all the recreant hate of envious knaves | D |
| Sublime she stands while stifled in the sound | C |
| Each lie that falls from German boors and slaves | D |
| Falls but as filth dropt in the wandering waves | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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