The Sailing Of The Long-ships Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC ADEE FFGG HHII JJKK DAEE| October | A |
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| They saw the cables loosened they saw the gangways cleared | B |
| They heard the women weeping they heard the men that cheered | B |
| Far off far off the tumult faded and died away | C |
| And all alone the sea wind came singing up the Bay | C |
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| I came by Cape St Vincent I came by Trafalgar | A |
| I swept from Torres Vedras to golden Vigo Bar | D |
| I saw the beacons blazing that fired the world with light | E |
| When down their ancient highway your fathers passed to fight | E |
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| O race of tireless fighters flushed with a youth renewed | F |
| Right well the wars of Freedom befit the Sea kings' brood | F |
| Yet as ye go forget not the fame of yonder shore | G |
| The fame ye owe your fathers and the old time before | G |
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| Long suffering were the Sea kings they were not swift to kill | H |
| But when the sands had fallen they waited no man's will | H |
| Though all the world forbade them they counted not nor cared | I |
| They weighed not help or hindrance they did the thing they dared | I |
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| The Sea kings loved not boasting they cursed not him that cursed | J |
| They honoured all men duly and him that faced them first | J |
| They strove and knew not hatred they smote and toiled to save | K |
| They tended whom they vanquished they praised the fallen brave | K |
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| Their fame's on Torres Vedras their fame's on Vigo Bar | D |
| Far flashed to Cape St Vincent it burns from Trafalgar | A |
| Mark as ye go the beacons that woke the world with light | E |
| When down their ancient highway your fathers passed to fight | E |
Henry Newbolt
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