The Invincible Armada Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAABCADDAAAA EAAFGGHAHAAGIIAGJJAK KAAK HLHLAAMMNONO| She comes she comes the burden of the deeps | A |
| Beneath her wails the universal sea | A |
| With clanking chains and a new god she sweeps | A |
| And with a thousand thunders unto thee | A |
| The ocean castles and the floating hosts | A |
| Ne'er on their like looked the wild water Well | B |
| May man the monster name Invincible | C |
| O'er shuddering waves she gathers to thy coasts | A |
| The horror that she spreads can claim | D |
| Just title to her haughty name | D |
| The trembling Neptune quails | A |
| Under the silent and majestic forms | A |
| The doom of worlds in those dark sails | A |
| Near and more near they sweep and slumber all the storms | A |
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| Before thee the array | E |
| Blest island empress of the sea | A |
| The sea born squadrons threaten thee | A |
| And thy great heart Britannia | F |
| Woe to thy people of their freedom proud | G |
| She rests a thunder heavy in its cloud | G |
| Who to thy hand the orb and sceptre gave | H |
| That thou should'st be the sovereign of the nations | A |
| To tyrant kings thou wert thyself the slave | H |
| Till freedom dug from law its deep foundations | A |
| The mighty Chart the citizens made kings | A |
| And kings to citizens sublimely bowed | G |
| And thou thyself upon thy realm of water | I |
| Hast thou not rendered millions up to slaughter | I |
| When thy ships brought upon their sailing wings | A |
| The sceptre and the shroud | G |
| What should'st thou thank Blush earth to hear and feel | J |
| What should'st thou thank Thy genius and thy steel | J |
| Behold the hidden and the giant fires | A |
| Behold thy glory trembling to its fall | K |
| Thy coming doom the round earth shall appal | K |
| And all the hearts of freemen beat for thee | A |
| And all free souls their fate in thine foresee | A |
| Theirs is thy glory's fall | K |
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| One look below the Almighty gave | H |
| Where streamed the lion flags of thy proud foe | L |
| And near and wider yawned the horrent grave | H |
| And who saith He shall lay mine England low | L |
| The stem that blooms with hero deeds | A |
| The rock when man from wrong a refuge needs | A |
| The stronghold where the tyrant comes in vain | M |
| Who shall bid England vanish from the main | M |
| Ne'er be this only Eden freedom knew | N |
| Man's stout defence from power to fate consigned | O |
| God the Almighty blew | N |
| And the Armada went to every wind | O |
Friedrich Schiller
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