Waggon Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCAC ADADDCAC AEAEEFAC| Drake in the North Sea grimly prowling | A |
| Treading his dear Revenge's deck | B |
| Watched with the sea dogs round him growling | A |
| Galleons drifting wreck by wreck | B |
| Fetter and Faith for England's neck | B |
| Faggot and Father Saint and chain | C |
| Yonder the Devil and all go howling | A |
| Devon O Devon in wind and rain | C |
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| Drake at the last off Nombre lying | A |
| Knowing the night that toward him crept | D |
| Gave to the sea dogs round him crying | A |
| This for a sign before he slept | D |
| Pride of the West What Devon hath kept | D |
| Devon shall keep on tide or main | C |
| Call to the storm and drive them flying | A |
| Devon O Devon in wind and rain | C |
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| Valour of England gaunt and whitening | A |
| Far in a South land brought to bay | E |
| Locked in a death grip all day tightening | A |
| Waited the end in twilight gray | E |
| Battle and storm and the sea dog's way | E |
| Drake from his long rest turned again | F |
| Victory lit thy steel with lightning | A |
| Devon o Devon in wind and rain | C |
Henry Newbolt
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