With The Submarines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHAHAHHH AHIH JKLMNOPOQHRH STAT AUVVWXYX ZA2HA2HB2C2B2| Above the baffled twilight fails beneath the | A |
| blind snakes creep | B |
| Beside us glides the charnel shark our pilot | C |
| through the deep | B |
| And lurking where low headlands shield from | D |
| cruising scout and spy | E |
| We bide the signal through the gloom that bids | F |
| us slay or die | E |
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| All watchful mute the crouching guns that guard | G |
| the strait sea lanes | H |
| Watchful and hawklike plumed with hate the | A |
| desperate aeroplanes | H |
| And still as death and swift as fate above the | A |
| darkling coasts | H |
| The spying Wireless sows the night with troops | H |
| of stealthy ghosts | H |
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| While hushed through all her huddled streets the | A |
| tide walled city waits | H |
| The drumming thunders that announce brute | I |
| battle at her gates | H |
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| Southward a hundred windy leagues through | J |
| storms that blind and bar | K |
| Our cheated cruisers search the waves our cap | L |
| tains seek the war | M |
| But here the port of peril is the foeman's dread | N |
| noughts ride | O |
| Sullen and black against the moon upon a sullen | P |
| tide | O |
| And only we to launch ourselves against their | Q |
| stark advance | H |
| To guide uncertain lightnings through these treach | R |
| erous seas of chance | H |
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| And now a wheeling searchlight paints a signal on | S |
| the night | T |
| And now the bellowing guns are loud with the | A |
| wild lust of fight | T |
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| And now her flanks of steel apulse with all the | A |
| power of hell | U |
| Forth from the darkness leaps in pride a hateful | V |
| miracle | V |
| The flagship of their Admiral and now God help | W |
| and save | X |
| We challenge Death at Death's own game we | Y |
| sink beneath the wave | X |
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| Ah steady now and one good blow one straight | Z |
| stab through the gloom | A2 |
| Ah good the thrust went home she founders | H |
| flounders to her doom | A2 |
| Full speed ahead those damned quick firing guns | H |
| but let them bark | B2 |
| What's that the dynamos they've got us men | C2 |
| Christ in the dark | B2 |
Don Marquis
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