Songs Of The Fleet - The Song Of The Guns At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDBBEE FGGFHHIIJK LMMLIINNEE| Oh hear Oh hear | A |
| Across the sullen tide | B |
| Across the echoing dome horizon wide | B |
| What pulse of fear | C |
| Beats with tremendous boom | D |
| What call of instant doom | D |
| With thunderstroke of terror and of pride | B |
| With urgency that may not be denied | B |
| Reverberates upon the heart's own drum | E |
| Come Come for thou must come | E |
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| Come forth O Soul | F |
| This is thy day of power | G |
| This is the day and this the glorious hour | G |
| That was the goal | F |
| Of thy self conquering strife | H |
| The love of child and wife | H |
| The fields of Earth and the wide ways of Thought | I |
| Did not thy purpose count them all as nought | I |
| That in this moment thou thyself mayst give | J |
| And in thy country's life for ever live | K |
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| Therefore rejoice | L |
| That in thy passionate prime | M |
| Youth's nobler hope disdained the spoils of Time | M |
| And thine own choice | L |
| Fore earned for thee this day | I |
| Rejoice rejoice to obey | I |
| In the great hour of life that men call Death | N |
| The beat that bids thee draw heroic breath | N |
| Deep throbbing till thy mortal heart be dumb | E |
| Come Come the time is come | E |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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