Minora Sidera (the Dictionary Of National Biography) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| Sitting at times over a hearth that burns | A |
| With dull domestic glow | B |
| My thought leaving the book gratefully turns | A |
| To you who planned it so | B |
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| Not of the great only you deigned to tell | C |
| The stars by which we steer | D |
| But lights out of the night that flashed and fell | C |
| Tonight again are here | E |
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| Such as were those dogs of an elder day | F |
| Who sacked the golden ports | G |
| And those later who dared grapple their prey | F |
| Beneath the harbour forts | G |
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| Some with flag at the fore sweeping the world | H |
| To find an equal fight | I |
| And some who joined war to their trade and hurled | H |
| Ships of the line in flight | I |
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| Whether their fame centuries long should ring | J |
| They cared not over much | K |
| But cared greatly to serve God and the king | J |
| And keep the Nelson touch | K |
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| And fought to build Britain above the tide | L |
| Of wars and windy fate | M |
| And passed content leaving to us the pride | L |
| Of lives obscurely great | M |
Henry Newbolt
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