Paul Jones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIKLMLM NLNLFOFO| A century of silent suns | A |
| Have set since he was laid on sleep | B |
| And now they bear with booming guns | A |
| And streaming banners o'er the deep | B |
| A withered skin and clammy hair | C |
| Upon a frame of human bones | D |
| Whose corse We neither know nor care | C |
| Content to name it John Paul Jones | D |
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| His dust were as another's dust | E |
| His bones what boots it where they lie | F |
| What matter where his sword is rust | E |
| Or where now dark his eagle eye | F |
| No foe need fear his arm again | G |
| Nor love nor praise can make him whole | H |
| But o'er the farthest sons of men | G |
| Will brood the glory of his soul | H |
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| Careless though cenotaph or tomb | I |
| Shall tower his country's monument | J |
| Let banners float and cannon boom | I |
| A million throated shout be spent | K |
| Until his widowed sea shall laugh | L |
| With sunlight in her mantling foam | M |
| While to his tomb or cenotaph | L |
| We bid our hero welcome home | M |
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| Twice exiled let his ashes rest | N |
| At home afar or in the wave | L |
| But keep his great heart with us lest | N |
| Our nation's greatness find its grave | L |
| And while the vast deep listens by | F |
| When armored wrong makes terms to right | O |
| Keep on our lips his proud reply | F |
| Sir I have but begun to fight | O |
John Charles Mcneill
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