The Hundredth Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDDC EFEFFFFF FGFG DDDG FHFHHHHH| Drake and Blake and Nelson's mighty name | A |
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| The stars were faint in heaven | B |
| That saw the Old Year die | C |
| The dream white mist of Devon | B |
| Shut in the seaward sky | C |
| Before the dawn's unveiling | D |
| I heard three voices hailing | D |
| I saw three ships come sailing | D |
| With lanterns gleaming high | C |
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| The first he cried defiance | E |
| A full mouthed voice and bold | F |
| On God be our reliance | E |
| Our hope the Spaniard's gold | F |
| With a still stern ambuscado | F |
| With a roaring escalado | F |
| We'll sack their Eldorado | F |
| And storm their dungeon hold | F |
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| Then slowly spake the second | F |
| A great sad voice and deep | G |
| When all your gold is reckoned | F |
| There is but this to keep | G |
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| To stay the foe from fooling | D |
| To learn the heathen schooling | D |
| To live and die sea ruling | D |
| And home at last to sleep | G |
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| But the third matched in beauty | F |
| The dawn that flushed afar | H |
| O sons of England Duty | F |
| Is England's morning star | H |
| Then Fame's eternal splendour | H |
| Be theirs who well defend her | H |
| And theirs who fain would bend her | H |
| The night of Trafalgar | H |
Henry John Newbolt, Sir
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