A Cinque Port Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFHH IJKJGG ALMLEE| Below the down the stranded town | A |
| What may betide forlornly waits | B |
| With memories of smoky skies | C |
| When Gallic navies crossed the straits | B |
| When waves with fire and blood grew bright | D |
| And cannon thundered through the night | D |
| - | |
| With swinging stride the rhythmic tide | E |
| Bore to the harbour barque and sloop | F |
| Across the bar the ship of war | G |
| In castled stern and lanterned poop | F |
| Came up with conquests on her lee | H |
| The stately mistress of the sea | H |
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| Where argosies have wooed the breeze | I |
| The simple sheep are feeding now | J |
| And near and far across the bar | K |
| The ploughman whistles at the plough | J |
| Where once the long waves washed the shore | G |
| Larks from their lowly lodgings soar | G |
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| Below the down the stranded town | A |
| Hears far away the rollers beat | L |
| About the wall the seabirds call | M |
| The salt wind murmurs through the street | L |
| Forlorn the sea's forsaken bride | E |
| Awaits the end that shall betide | E |
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