The Temeraire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGDG DHIH JKLKJM NMJEDOEDEPJQJDRJRMNM NJJSJDDDJ TNJNJGDGUJRJRJRJNJ| Supposed to have been suggested to an Englishman of | A |
| the old order by the fight of the Monitor and Merrimac | B |
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| The gloomy hulls in armor grim | C |
| Like clouds o'er moors have met | D |
| And prove that oak and iron and man | E |
| Are tough in fibre yet | D |
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| But Splendors wane The sea fight yields | F |
| No front of old display | G |
| The garniture emblazonment | D |
| And heraldry all decay | G |
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| Towering afar in parting light | D |
| The fleets like Albion's forelands shine | H |
| The full sailed fleets the shrouded show | I |
| Of Ships of the Line | H |
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| The fighting Temeraire | J |
| Built of a thousand trees | K |
| Lunging out her lightnings | L |
| And beetling o'er the seas | K |
| O Ship how brave and fair | J |
| That fought so oft and well | M |
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| On open decks you manned the gun | N |
| Armorial | M |
| What cheerings did you share | J |
| Impulsive in the van | E |
| When down upon leagued France and | D |
| Spain | O |
| We English ran | E |
| The freshet at your bowsprit | D |
| Like the foam upon the can | E |
| Bickering your colors | P |
| Licked up the Spanish air | J |
| You flapped with flames of battle flags | Q |
| Your challenge Temeraire | J |
| The rear ones of our fleet | D |
| They yearned to share your place | R |
| Still vying with the Victory | J |
| Throughout that earnest race | R |
| The Victory whose Admiral | M |
| With orders nobly won | N |
| Shone in the globe of the battle glow | M |
| The angel in that sun | N |
| Parallel in story | J |
| Lo the stately pair | J |
| As late in grapple ranging | S |
| The foe between them there | J |
| When four great hulls lay tiered | D |
| And the fiery tempest cleared | D |
| And your prizes twain appeared | D |
| Temeraire | J |
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| But Trafalgar is over now | T |
| The quarter deck undone | N |
| The carved and castled navies fire | J |
| Their evening gun | N |
| O Titan Temeraire | J |
| Your stern lights fade away | G |
| Your bulwarks to the years must yield | D |
| And heart of oak decay | G |
| A pigmy steam tug tows you | U |
| Gigantic to the shore | J |
| Dismantled of your guns and spars | R |
| And sweeping wings of war | J |
| The rivets clinch the iron clads | R |
| Men learn a deadlier lore | J |
| But Fame has nailed your battle flags | R |
| Your ghost it sails before | J |
| O the navies old and oaken | N |
| O the Temeraire no more | J |
Herman Melville
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