The Victory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMLNOPQRJ SRTUVRWXYRAZA2DB2C2W YD2E2F2KG2RG2H2G2 R

Hark how the church bells thundering harmonyA
Stuns the glad ear tidings of joy have comeB
Good tidings of great joy two gallant shipsC
Met on the element they met they foughtD
A desperate fight good tidings of great joyE
Old England triumphed yet another dayF
Of glory for the ruler of the wavesG
For those who fell 'twas in their country's causeH
They have their passing paragraphs of praiseI
And are forgottenJ
There was one who diedK
In that day's glory whose obscurer nameL
No proud historian's page will chronicleM
Peace to his honest soul I read his nameL
'Twas in the list of slaughter and blest GodN
The sound was not familiar to mine earO
But it was told me after that this manP
Was one whom lawful violence had forcedQ
From his own home and wife and little onesR
Who by his labour lived that he was oneJ
Whose uncorrupted heart could keenly feelS
A husband's love a father's anxiousnessR
That from the wages of his toil he fedT
The distant dear ones and would talk of themU
At midnight when he trod the silent deckV
With him he valued talk of them of joysR
That he had known oh God and of the hourW
When they should meet again till his full heartX
His manly heart at last would overflowY
Even like a child's with very tendernessR
Peace to his honest spirit suddenlyA
It came and merciful the ball of deathZ
For it came suddenly and shattered himA2
And left no moment's agonizing thoughtD
On those he loved so wellB2
He ocean deepC2
Now lies at rest Be Thou her comforterW
Who art the widow's friend Man does not knowY
What a cold sickness made her blood run backD2
When first she heard the tidings of the fightE2
Man does not know with what a dreadful hopeF2
She listened to the names of those who diedK
Man does not know or knowing will not heedG2
With what an agony of tendernessR
She gazed upon her children and beheldG2
His image who was gone Oh God be thouH2
Her comforter who art the widow's friendG2
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Footnote The person alluded to was pressed into the serviceR

Robert Southey



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