Walcheren Expedition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEED FGHGIDJJD KLMLNDOOD CPCQCDJJD RBSBCDTTD UVNVNDCCD WXYXZIA2A2D| Ye brave enduring Englishmen | A |
| Who dash through fire and flood | B |
| And spend with equal thoughtlessness | C |
| Your money and your blood | B |
| I sing of that black season | A |
| Which all true hearts deplore | D |
| When ye lay | E |
| Night and day | E |
| Upon Walcheren's swampy shore | D |
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| 'Twas in the summer's sunshine | F |
| Your mighty host set sail | G |
| With valour in each longing heart | H |
| And vigour in the gale | G |
| The Frenchman dropp'd his laughter | I |
| The Fleming's thoughts grew sore | D |
| As ye came | J |
| In your fame | J |
| To the dark and swampy shore | D |
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| But foul delays encompass'd ye | K |
| More dang'rous than the foe | L |
| As Antwerp's town and its guarded fleet | M |
| Too well for Britons know | L |
| One spot alone ye conquer'd | N |
| With hosts unknown of yore | D |
| And your might | O |
| Day and night | O |
| Lay still on the swampy shore | D |
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| In vain your dauntless mariners | C |
| Mourn'd ev'ry moment lost | P |
| In vain your soldiers threw their eyes | C |
| In flame to the hostile coast | Q |
| The fire of gallant aspects | C |
| Was doom'd to be no more | D |
| And your fame | J |
| Sunk with shame | J |
| In the dark and the swampy shore | D |
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| Ye died not in the triumphing | R |
| Of the battle shaken flood | B |
| Ye died not on the charging field | S |
| In the mingle of brave blood | B |
| But 'twas in wasting fevers | C |
| Full three months and more | D |
| Britons born | T |
| Pierc'd with scorn | T |
| Lay at rot on the swampy shore | D |
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| No ship came o'er to bring relief | U |
| No orders came to save | V |
| But DEATH stood there and never stirr'd | N |
| Still counting for the grave | V |
| They lay down and they linger'd | N |
| And died with feelings sore | D |
| And the waves | C |
| Pierc'd their graves | C |
| Thro' the dark and the swampy shore | D |
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| Oh England Oh my Countrymen | W |
| Ye ne'er shall thrive again | X |
| Till freed from Councils obstinate | Y |
| Of mercenary men | X |
| So toll for the six thousand | Z |
| Whose miseries are o'er | I |
| Where the deep | A2 |
| To their sleep | A2 |
| Bemoans on the swampy shore | D |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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