1805 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDC EAE FGH IJI KLK JMJ NJN OPO QJR| At Viscount Nelson s lavish funeral | A |
| While the mob milled and yelled about St Paul s | B |
| A General chatted with an Admiral | A |
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| One of your colleagues Sir remarked today | C |
| That Nelson s exit though to be lamented | D |
| Falls not inopportunely in it s way | C |
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| He was a thorn in our flesh came the reply | E |
| The mot bird witted unaccountable | A |
| Odd little runt that ever I did spy | E |
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| One arm one peeper vain as Pretty Poll | F |
| A meddler too in foreign politics | G |
| And gave his heart in pawn to a plain moll | H |
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| He would dare lecture us Sea Lords and then | I |
| Would treat his ratings as though men of honour | J |
| And play leap frog with his midshipmen | I |
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| We tried to box him down but up he popped | K |
| And when he banged Napoleon on the Nile | L |
| Became too much the hero to be dropped | K |
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| You ve heard that Copenhagen blind eye story | J |
| We d tied him to Nurse Parker s apron strings | M |
| By G d he snipped them through and snatched the glory | J |
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| Yet cried the General sic and twenty sail | N |
| Captured or sunk by him off Trafalgar | J |
| That writes a handsome finis to the tale | N |
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| Handsome enough The seas are England s now | O |
| That fellow s foibles need no longer plague us | P |
| He died most creditably I ll allow | O |
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| And Sir the secret of his victories | Q |
| By his unServicelike familiar ways Sir | J |
| He made the whole Fleet love him damn his eyes | R |
Robert Graves
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