The Death Of Admiral Blake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEF EGGG HGIG FGEG EJEJ KLGL KEEE| August th | A |
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| Laden with spoil of the South fulfilled with the glory of achievement | B |
| And freshly crowned with never dying fame | C |
| Sweeping by shores where the names are the names of the victories of England | D |
| Across the Bay the squadron homeward came | C |
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| Proudly they came but their pride was the pomp of a funeral at midnight | E |
| When dreader yet the lonely morrow looms | F |
| Few are the words that are spoken and faces are gaunt beneath the torchlight | E |
| That does but darken more the nodding plumes | F |
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| Low on the field of his fame past hope lay the Admiral triumphant | E |
| And fain to rest him after all his pain | G |
| Yet for the love that he bore to his own land ever unforgotten | G |
| He prayed to see the western hills again | G |
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| Fainter than stars in a sky long gray with the coming of the daybreak | H |
| Or sounds of night that fade when night is done | G |
| So in the death dawn faded the splendour and loud renown of warfare | I |
| And life of all its longings kept but one | G |
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| Oh to be there for an hour when the shade draws in beside the hedgerows | F |
| And falling apples wake the drowsy noon | G |
| Oh for the hour when the elms grow sombre and human in the twilight | E |
| And gardens dream beneath the rising moon | G |
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| Only to look once more on the land of the memories of childhood | E |
| Forgetting weary winds and barren foam | J |
| Only to bid farewell to the combe and the orchard and the moorland | E |
| And sleep at last among the fields of home | J |
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| So he was silently praying till now when his strength was ebbing faster | K |
| The Lizard lay before them faintly blue | L |
| Now on the gleaming horizon the white cliffs laughed along the coast line | G |
| And now the forelands took the shapes they knew | L |
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| There lay the Sound and the Island with green leaves down beside the water | K |
| The town the Hoe the masts with sunset fired | E |
| Dreams ay dreams of the dead for the great heart faltered on the threshold | E |
| And darkness took the land his soul desired | E |
Henry Newbolt
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