Song Of The Sea-fight, In Amboyna. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAACCAA DDCCEEFFGGHHAA| Who ever saw a noble sight | A |
| That never view'd a brave sea fight | A |
| Hang up your bloody colours in the air | B |
| Up with your fights and your nettings prepare | B |
| Your merry mates cheer with a lusty bold spright | A |
| Now each man his brindace and then to the fight | A |
| St George St George we cry | C |
| The shouting Turks reply | C |
| Oh now it begins and the gun room grows hot | A |
| Ply it with culverin and with small shot | A |
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| Hark does it not thunder no 'tis the guns' roar | D |
| The neighbouring billows are turn'd into gore | D |
| Now each man must resolve to die | C |
| For here the coward cannot fly | C |
| Drums and trumpets toll the knell | E |
| And culverins the passing bell | E |
| Now now they grapple and now board amain | F |
| Blow up the hatches they're off all again | F |
| Give them a broadside the dice run at all | G |
| Down comes the mast and yard and tacklings fall | G |
| She grows giddy now like blind Fortune's wheel | H |
| She sinks there she sinks she turns up her keel | H |
| Who ever beheld so noble a sight | A |
| As this so brave so bloody sea fight | A |
John Dryden
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