Trafalgar Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABBCBCCDCDDEDEEFE FFGFGGHGHHGH| Sea that art ours as we are thine whose name | A |
| Is one with England's even as light with flame | A |
| Dost thou as we thy chosen of all men know | B |
| This day of days when death gave life to fame | A |
| Dost thou not kindle above and thrill below | B |
| With rapturous record with memorial glow | B |
| Remembering this thy festal day of fight | C |
| And all the joy it gave and all the woe | B |
| Never since day broke flowerlike forth of night | C |
| Broke such a dawn of battle Death in sight | C |
| Made of the man whose life was like the sun | D |
| A man more godlike than the lord of light | C |
| There is none like him and there shall be none | D |
| When England bears again as great a son | D |
| He can but follow fame where Nelson led | E |
| There is not and there cannot be but one | D |
| As earth has but one England crown and head | E |
| Of all her glories till the sun be dead | E |
| Supreme in peace and war supreme in song | F |
| Supreme in freedom since her rede was read | E |
| Pg Since first the soul that gave her speech grew strong | F |
| To help the right and heal the wild world's wrong | F |
| So she hath but one royal Nelson born | G |
| To reign on time above the years that throng | F |
| The music of his name puts fear to scorn | G |
| And thrills our twilight through with sense of morn | G |
| As England was how should not England be | H |
| No tempest yet has left her banner torn | G |
| No year has yet put out the day when he | H |
| Who lived and died to keep our kingship free | H |
| Wherever seas by warring winds are worn | G |
| Died and was one with England and the sea | H |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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