Crimean War Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDCCEFGGHHHHFF| At the announcement that Britain was to declare War Kossuth | A |
| the Hungarian Patriot and orator declared in an address in | B |
| England that the British Lion was a sea dog but helpless on land | C |
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| When the British Lion offered aid to the turk | D |
| Round many lips a sneer of serious doubt did lurk | D |
| They said he was at home on sea but when on land | C |
| He would be as a ship wrecked upon the strand | C |
| Or like some huge ungainly crockadile sic | E |
| Upon the marshy banks of sluggish Nile | F |
| Who could move gayly on the deep | G |
| But on dry land could scarcely creep | G |
| But up the Alma heights he rushed like grayhounds after hare | H |
| And in a moment by the throat he seized the Russian Bear | H |
| Which begged so hard for mercy his life he did it spare | H |
| And closely now it is confined within its native lair | H |
| For its strong fortress great Sebastapool | F |
| Was forced to submit to Great Britain's rule | F |
James Mcintyre
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