October 21, 1905 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCAC DEDEFDF GHGHIGI JKBKLKL MNONPOP| The hundred years have passed and he | A |
| Whose name appeased a nation's fears | B |
| As with a hand laid over sea | A |
| To thunder through the foeman's ears | B |
| Defeat before his blast of fire | C |
| Lives in the immortality | A |
| That poets dream and noblest souls desire | C |
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| Never did nation's need evoke | D |
| Hero like him for aid the while | E |
| A Continent was cannon smoke | D |
| Or peace in slavery this one Isle | E |
| Reflecting Nature this one man | F |
| Her sea hound and her mortal stroke | D |
| With war worn body aye in battle's van | F |
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| And do we love him well as well | G |
| As he his country we may greet | H |
| With hand on steel our passing bell | G |
| Nigh on the swing for prelude sweet | H |
| To the music heard when his last breath | I |
| Hung on its ebb beside the knell | G |
| And VICTORY in his ear sang gracious Death | I |
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| Ah day of glory day of tears | J |
| Day of a people bowed as one | K |
| Behold across those hundred years | B |
| The lion flash of gun at gun | K |
| Our bitter pride our love bereaved | L |
| What pall of cloud o'ercame our sun | K |
| That day to bear his wreath the end achieved | L |
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| Joy that no more with murder's frown | M |
| The ancient rivals bark apart | N |
| Now Nelson to brave France is shown | O |
| A hero after her own heart | N |
| And he now scanning that quick race | P |
| To whom through life his glove was thrown | O |
| Would know a sister spirit to embrace | P |
George Meredith
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