Commemorative Of A Naval Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEBD FEGHHIJKI LMNMMOPQMO| Sailors there are of the gentlest breed | A |
| Yet strong like every goodly thing | B |
| The discipline of arms refines | C |
| And the wave gives tempering | B |
| The damasked blade its beam can fling | B |
| It lends the last grave grace | D |
| The hawk the hound and sworded nobleman | E |
| In Titian's picture for a king | B |
| Are of hunter or warrior race | D |
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| In social halls a favored guest | F |
| In years that follow victory won | E |
| How sweet to feel your festal fame | G |
| In woman's glance instinctive thrown | H |
| Repose is yours your deed is known | H |
| It musks the amber wine | I |
| It lives and sheds a light from storied days | J |
| Rich as October sunsets brown | K |
| Which make the barren place to shine | I |
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| But seldom the laurel wreath is seen | L |
| Unmixed with pensive pansies dark | M |
| There's a light and a shadow on every man | N |
| Who at last attains his lifted mark | M |
| Nursing through night the ethereal spark | M |
| Elate he never can be | O |
| He feels that spirit which glad had hailed his | P |
| worth | Q |
| Sleep in oblivion The shark | M |
| Glides white through the phosphorus sea | O |
Herman Melville
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