A Salutation Of His Majesties Ship The Soveraign Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPNNNNQQ| Move on thou floating Trophee built to fame | A |
| And bid her trump spread thy Majestick name | A |
| That the blew Tritons and those petty Gods | B |
| Which sport themselves upon the dancing floods | C |
| May bow as to their Neptune when they feel | D |
| The awful pressure of thy potent keel | D |
| Great wonder of the time whose form unites | E |
| In one aspect two warring opposites | F |
| Delight and horrour and in them portends | G |
| Diff'ring events both to thy foes and friends | G |
| To these thy radiant brow Peaces bright Shrine | H |
| Doth like that golden Constellation shine | H |
| Which guides the Sea man with auspicious beams | I |
| Safe and unshipwrackt through the troubled streams | I |
| But as a blazing Meteor to those | J |
| It doth ostents of blood and death disclose | J |
| For thy rich Decks lighten like Heavens fires | K |
| To usher forth the thunder of thy Tires | K |
| O never may cross wind or swelling wave | L |
| Conspire to make the treach'rous sands thy grave | L |
| Nor envious rocks in their white foamy laugh | M |
| Rejoyce to wear thy losses Epitaph | M |
| But may the smoothest most successful gales | N |
| Distend thy sheet and wing thy flying sailes | N |
| That all designes which must on thee embark | O |
| May be securely plac't as in the Ark | O |
| May'st thou where ere thy streamers shall display | P |
| Enforce the bold disputers to obey | P |
| That they whose pens are sharper then their swords | N |
| May yield in fact what they deny'd in words | N |
| Thus when th' amazed world our Seas shall see | N |
| Shut from Usurpers to their own Lord free | N |
| Thou may'st returning from the conquer'd Main | Q |
| With thine own Triumphs be crown'd Soveraign | Q |
Henry King
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