Ode For Trafalgar Day, 1905 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDFEF GHGHIAIJAJ KLKLMNMONO PQPQRSRTST| Partial firing continued until when a victory having been reported to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Nelson K B and Commander in Chief he then died of his wound Log of the Victory October | A |
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| England to day let fire be in thine eyes | B |
| And in thy heart the throb of leaping guns | C |
| Crown in thy streets the deed that never dies | B |
| And tell their fathers' fame to all thy sons | C |
| Behold behold on that unchanging sea | D |
| Where day behind Trafalgar rises pale | E |
| How dread the storm to be | D |
| Drifts up with ominous breath | F |
| Cloud after towering cloud of billowy sail | E |
| Full charged with thunder and the bolts of death | F |
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| Yet when the noon is past and thy delight | G |
| More delicate for these good hundred years | H |
| Has drunk the splendour and the sound of fight | G |
| And the sweet sting of long since vanished fears | H |
| Then England come thou down with sterner lips | I |
| From the bright world of thy substantial power | A |
| Forget thy seas thy ships | I |
| And that wide echoing dome | J |
| To watch the soul of man in his dark hour | A |
| Redeeming yet his dear lost land of home | J |
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| What place is this What under world of pain | K |
| All shadow barred with glare of swinging fires | L |
| What writhing phantoms of the newly slain | K |
| What cries What thirst consuming all desires | L |
| This is the field of battle not for life | M |
| Not for the deeper life that dwells in love | N |
| Not for the savour of strife | M |
| Or the far call of fame | O |
| Not for all these the fight all these above | N |
| The soul of this man cherished Duty's name | O |
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| His steadfast hope from self has turned away | P |
| For the Cause only must he still contend | Q |
| How goes the day with us How goes the day | P |
| He craves not victory but to make an end | Q |
| Therefore not yet thine hour O Death but when | R |
| The weapons forged against his country's peace | S |
| Lie broken round him then | R |
| Give him the kiss supreme | T |
| Then let the tumult of his warfare cease | S |
| And the last dawn dispel his anguished dream | T |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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