The Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMLNOPQRJ SRTUVRWXYRAZA2DB2C2W YD2E2F2KG2RG2H2G2 RHark how the church bells thundering harmony | A |
Stuns the glad ear tidings of joy have come | B |
Good tidings of great joy two gallant ships | C |
Met on the element they met they fought | D |
A desperate fight good tidings of great joy | E |
Old England triumphed yet another day | F |
Of glory for the ruler of the waves | G |
For those who fell 'twas in their country's cause | H |
They have their passing paragraphs of praise | I |
And are forgotten | J |
There was one who died | K |
In that day's glory whose obscurer name | L |
No proud historian's page will chronicle | M |
Peace to his honest soul I read his name | L |
'Twas in the list of slaughter and blest God | N |
The sound was not familiar to mine ear | O |
But it was told me after that this man | P |
Was one whom lawful violence had forced | Q |
From his own home and wife and little ones | R |
Who by his labour lived that he was one | J |
Whose uncorrupted heart could keenly feel | S |
A husband's love a father's anxiousness | R |
That from the wages of his toil he fed | T |
The distant dear ones and would talk of them | U |
At midnight when he trod the silent deck | V |
With him he valued talk of them of joys | R |
That he had known oh God and of the hour | W |
When they should meet again till his full heart | X |
His manly heart at last would overflow | Y |
Even like a child's with very tenderness | R |
Peace to his honest spirit suddenly | A |
It came and merciful the ball of death | Z |
For it came suddenly and shattered him | A2 |
And left no moment's agonizing thought | D |
On those he loved so well | B2 |
He ocean deep | C2 |
Now lies at rest Be Thou her comforter | W |
Who art the widow's friend Man does not know | Y |
What a cold sickness made her blood run back | D2 |
When first she heard the tidings of the fight | E2 |
Man does not know with what a dreadful hope | F2 |
She listened to the names of those who died | K |
Man does not know or knowing will not heed | G2 |
With what an agony of tenderness | R |
She gazed upon her children and beheld | G2 |
His image who was gone Oh God be thou | H2 |
Her comforter who art the widow's friend | G2 |
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Footnote The person alluded to was pressed into the service | R |
Robert Southey
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