An Onset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK LLMNOOOO| Hallo ye my fellows arise and advance | A |
| See the white crested waves how they stamp and they dance | A |
| High over the reef there in anger and might | B |
| So wildly we dance to the bloody red fight | B |
| Than gather now gather come gather ye all | C |
| Each thing that hath legs and arms come to our call | C |
| Like reeds on the moor when the whirlwinds vie | D |
| Our lances and war axes darken the sky | D |
| Sharp sharp as the tooth of the sea hound and shark | E |
| They'll tear ye they'll split ye fly lance to the mark | E |
| Home home to the heart and thou battle axe grim | F |
| Split splintring and shivering through brain pan and limb | F |
| To day we ask vengeance to day we ask blood | G |
| We ask it we're coming to make our words good | H |
| The storm flinches not tho the woods choke its path | I |
| We ask it we're coming beware of our wrath | I |
| At home wives and children a hearth for us lay | J |
| A savoury flesh feast awaits us to day | J |
| Behind yonder mountains e en now the smoke streams | K |
| And the blaze of the bush fire crackles and gleams | K |
| Long long have we hungered and thirsted for you | L |
| At home the dogs bark round the clean table too | L |
| Loud shouting we'll eat you to night every one | M |
| Devour you clean to the white sinewy bone | N |
| Rush rush ye my fellows rush on them like hail | O |
| Soon soon shall their roasting your nostrils regale | O |
| The fire is flaring the oven s a glow | O |
| Heave to now hew thro now Holloa Hollo | O |
James Clerk Maxwell
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