To Flight-lieutenant Robinson, V.c. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDC EFEFGHHG IJIJKEEK| You with the hawk's eyes and the nerves of steel | A |
| How was it with you when the hurried word | B |
| Roused you and sent you swiftly forth to deal | A |
| A blow for justice Sure your pulses stirred | B |
| And all your being leapt to meet the call | C |
| Which bade you strike nor spare | D |
| Where poised in air | D |
| Murder and ravening flame were hid intent to fall | C |
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| Alone upon your fearful task you flew | E |
| Where in the vault of heaven the high stars swing | F |
| Alone and upward lost to mortal view | E |
| Winding about the assassin craft a ring | F |
| Of fateful motion till at last you sped | G |
| Through the far tracts of gloom | H |
| The bolt of doom | H |
| Shattering the dastard foe to earth with all his dead | G |
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| For this we thank you and we bid you know | I |
| That henceforth in the air by day or night | J |
| A myriad hopes of ours where'er you go | I |
| Rise as companions of your soaring flight | J |
| And well we know that when there comes the need | K |
| A host of men like you | E |
| As staunch as true | E |
| Will rush to prove the daring of the island breed | K |
R. C. Lehmann
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