Ionicus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHDHE IJIJKDKE| With failing feet and shoulders bowed | A |
| Beneath the weight of happier days | B |
| He lagged among the heedless crowd | A |
| Or crept along suburban ways | B |
| But still through all his heart was young | C |
| His mood a joy that nought could mar | D |
| A courage a pride a rapture sprung | C |
| Of the strength and splendour of England's war | E |
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| From ill requited toil he turned | F |
| To ride with Picton and with Pack | G |
| Among his grammars inly burned | F |
| To storm the Afghan mountain track | G |
| When midnight chimed before Quebec | H |
| He watched with Wolfe till the morning star | D |
| At noon he saw from Victory's deck | H |
| The sweep and splendour of England's war | E |
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| Beyond the book his teaching sped | I |
| He left on whom he taught the trace | J |
| Of kinship with the deathless dead | I |
| And faith in all the Island Race | J |
| He passed his life a tangle seemed | K |
| His age from fame and power was far | D |
| But his heart was night to the end and dreamed | K |
| Of the sound and splendour of England's war | E |
Henry Newbolt
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