The Centenary Of The Battle Of The Nile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBCCDCDDEDEFGFGGHG HHIHIIJIJJIJ| 'Horatio Nelson Honor est a Nilo' | A |
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| A hundred years have lightened and have waned | B |
| Since ancient Nile by grace of Nelson gained | B |
| A glory higher in story now than time | C |
| Saw when his kings were gods that raged and reigned | B |
| The day that left even England more sublime | C |
| And higher on heights that none but she may climb | C |
| Abides above all shock of change born chance | D |
| Where hope and memory hear the stars keep chime | C |
| The strong and sunbright lie whose name was France | D |
| Arose against the sun of truth whose glance | D |
| Laughed large from the eyes of England fierce as fire | E |
| Whence eyes wax blind that gaze on truth askance | D |
| A name above all names of heroes higher | E |
| Than song may sound or heart of man aspire | F |
| Rings as the very voice that speaks the sea | G |
| To day from all the sea's enkindling lyre | F |
| The sound that bids the soul of silence be | G |
| Fire and a rapturous music speaks and we | G |
| Hear what the sea's heart utters wide and far | H |
| This was his day and this day's light was he | G |
| O sea our sea that hadst him for thy star | H |
| A hundred years that fall upon thee are | H |
| Even as a hundred flakes of rain or snow | I |
| No storm of battle signs thee with a scar | H |
| But never more may ship that sails thee show | I |
| But never may the sun that loves thee know | I |
| But never may thine England give thee more | J |
| A man whose life and death shall praise thee so | I |
| The Nile the sea the battle and the shore | J |
| Heard as we hear one word arise and soar | J |
| Beheld one name above them tower and glow | I |
| Nelson a light that time bows down before | J |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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