Reverse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCEE| The wave that breaks against a forward stroke | A |
| Beats not the swimmer back but thrills him through | B |
| With joyous trust to win his way anew | B |
| Through stronger seas than first upon him broke | A |
| And triumphed England's iron tempered oak | A |
| Shrank not when Europe's might against her grew | B |
| Full and her sun drank up her foes like dew | B |
| And lion like from sleep her strength awoke | A |
| As bold in fight as bold in breach of trust | C |
| We find our foes and wonder not to find | D |
| Nor grudge them praise whom honour may not bind | D |
| But loathing more intense than speaks disgust | C |
| Heaves England's heart when scorn is bound to greet | E |
| Hunters and hounds whose tongues would lick their feet | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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