The Charge Of The Swordfish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDBEE FGH HI JI KHK KHK LMBMB KNNIOIO KPQQPRJER KSSTT| Now when beneath the riotous drinking | A |
| The witches found the liquor sinking | A |
| So low their ladles couldn't reach it | B |
| The blacksmith with a blazing larynx | C |
| Organized a swordfish phalanx | D |
| And charged the cauldron plate to breach it | B |
| Back from its copper flanks they fell | E |
| The smith had done his work too well | E |
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| A Greek | F |
| From such a race of myrmidons | G |
| Our heroes and our Marathons | H |
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| Fabius Maximus | H |
| It's but the fury of despair | I |
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| A French General | J |
| Magnifique Mais ce n'est pas la guerre | I |
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| Napoleon | K |
| By some such wild demonic means | H |
| My astral promise was undone | K |
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| Nelson | K |
| By spirits like to such marines | H |
| Trafalgar and the Nile were won | K |
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| Carlyle | L |
| Full ten feet thick that plate was wrought | M |
| And yet those swordfish tried to ram it | B |
| Unthinking fools I never thought | M |
| The sea so full of numskulls dammit | B |
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| Satan | K |
| Now by my hoof this recipe | N |
| Is worth a million souls to me | N |
| But lo what mortal creature there | I |
| Grins haunched upon the parapet | O |
| Whose fierce indomitable stare | I |
| I long have dreamed of but not met | O |
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| Maryan | K |
| Most sovereign and most sulphurous lord | P |
| We with the help of Cretans made | Q |
| This circumambient palisade | Q |
| Of this great height and strength to ward | P |
| Off such invaders as might mar | R |
| Our feast and then as sentinel | J |
| Chief vigilante out of hell | E |
| We stationed him from Zanzibar | R |
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| Satan | K |
| Good From such audacious seed | S |
| Sprang Heaven's finest fallen breed | S |
| Maryan Ardath Lulu | T |
| Try out upon this cat the brew | T |
E. J. Pratt
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