A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB DFGDHI JKLMNK OPDQRP DGSDTG| Plain be the phrase yet apt the verse | A |
| More ponderous than nimble | B |
| For since grimed War here laid aside | C |
| His painted pomp 'twould ill befit | D |
| Overmuch to ply | E |
| The rhyme's barbaric symbol | B |
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| Hail to victory without the gaud | D |
| Of glory zeal that needs no fans | F |
| Of banners plain mechanic power | G |
| Plied cogently in War now placed | D |
| Where War belongs | H |
| Among the trades and artisans | I |
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| Yet this was battle and intense | J |
| Beyond the strife of fleets heroic | K |
| Deadlier closer calm 'mid storm | L |
| No passion all went on by crank | M |
| Pivot and screw | N |
| And calculations of caloric | K |
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| Needless to dwell the story's known | O |
| The ringing of those plates on plates | P |
| Still ringeth round the world | D |
| The clangor of the blacksmiths' fray | Q |
| The anvil din | R |
| Resounds this message from the Fates | P |
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| War shall yet be and to the end | D |
| But war paint shows the streaks of weather | G |
| War yet shall be but the warriors | S |
| Are now but operatives War's made | D |
| Less grand than Peace | T |
| And a singe runs through lace and feather | G |
Herman Melville
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