Trafalgar Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDEFGFG HBHBIBIB JKJK LMLM NONOEPEP ABCB| He leads we hear our Seaman's call | A |
| In the roll of battles won | B |
| For he is Britain's Admiral | C |
| Till setting of her sun | B |
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| When Britain's life was in her ships | D |
| He kept the sea as his own right | E |
| And saved us from more fell eclipse | D |
| Than drops on day from blackest night | E |
| Again his battle spat the flame | F |
| Again his victory flag men saw | G |
| At sound of Nelson's chieftain name | F |
| A deeper breath did Freedom draw | G |
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| Each trusty captain knew his part | H |
| They served as men not marshalled kine | B |
| The pulses they of his great heart | H |
| With heads to work his main design | B |
| Their Nelson's word to beat the foe | I |
| And spare the fall'n before them shone | B |
| Good was the hour of blow for blow | I |
| And clear their course while they fought on | B |
| - | |
| Behold the Envied vanward sweep | J |
| A day in mourning weeds adored | K |
| Then Victory was wrought to weep | J |
| Then sorrow crowned with laurel soared | K |
| - | |
| A breezeless flag above a shroud | L |
| All Britain was when wind and wave | M |
| To make her passing human proud | L |
| Brought his last gift from o'er the grave | M |
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| Uprose the soul of him a star | N |
| On that brave day of Ocean days | O |
| It rolled the smoke from Trafalger | N |
| To darken Austerlitz ablaze | O |
| Are we the men of old its light | E |
| Will point us under every sky | P |
| The path he took and must we fight | E |
| Our Nelson be our battle cry | P |
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| He leads we hear our Seaman's call | A |
| In the roll of battles won | B |
| For he is Britain's Admiral | C |
| Till setting of her sun | B |
George Meredith
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