Ode To The British Fleet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDEEFGHG IJKIGGLL ACACMMGG GGGG| 'Invisible and silent' Mystery | A |
| Surrounded that great Guardian of the Sea | A |
| That Father Mother of the mighty main | B |
| While loud in valley and on field and hill | C |
| And over anguished plain | B |
| The battles thundered God himself is still | C |
| And hidden from men's view and it were meet | D |
| That this subliminal force | E |
| Should move in utter silence on its course | E |
| Invisible Inaudible till that hour | F |
| When Time Fate's Minister should speak and say | G |
| 'Come forth and show thy power ' | H |
| When Time commands even the gods obey | G |
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| 'Invisible and silent' yet the foe | I |
| Was driven from the Sea All impotent | J |
| The brazen braggart went | K |
| While commerce sent her brave ships to and fro | I |
| And from Columbia's shores there sailed away | G |
| Ten thousand men a day | G |
| Ten thousand men a day who reached their goals | L |
| Bringing new courage to war weary souls | L |
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| Oh silent wonder of the noisy sea | A |
| Though alien with the blood of Bunker Hill | C |
| Down filtering through my veins the heart of me | A |
| Seems with a mingled love and awe to fill | C |
| And overflow at thought of that sublime | M |
| Unparalleled large hour of Time | M |
| When bloodless Victory saw the foes' flag furled | G |
| That insolent menace to a righteous world | G |
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| Great Britain's Fleet unshaken in its might | G |
| Proclaimed itself again in all men's sight | G |
| The Mistress of the Main Fair Freedom's friend | G |
| May peace and glory on thy path attend | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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