The Destroyers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDF GHGIJKJL MNMOPGPG QRQRHFHF STSUPVPV WXWXQNQO YGYGKZKZ A2GA2GGFGF BGBGGFGF| A | |
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| The strength of twice three thousand horse | B |
| That seeks the single goal | C |
| The line that holds the rending course | B |
| The hate that swings the whole | C |
| The stripped hulls slinking through the gloom | D |
| At gaze and gone again | E |
| The Brides of Death that wait the groom | D |
| The Choosers of the Slain | F |
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| Offshore where sea and skyline blend | G |
| In rain the daylight dies | H |
| The sullen shouldering sweels attend | G |
| Night and our sacrifice | I |
| Adown the stricken capes no flare | J |
| No mark on spit or bar | K |
| Birdled and desperate we dare | J |
| The blindfold game of war | L |
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| Nearer the up flung beams that spell | M |
| The council of our foes | N |
| Clearer the barking guns that tell | M |
| Their scattered flank to close | O |
| Sheer to the trap they crowd their way | P |
| From ports for this unbarred | G |
| Quiet and count our laden prey | P |
| The convoy and her guard | G |
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| On shoal with carce a foot below | Q |
| Where rock and islet throng | R |
| Hidden and hushed we watch them throw | Q |
| Their anxious lights along | R |
| Not here not here your danger lies | H |
| Stare hard O hooded eyne | F |
| Save were the dazed rock pigeons rise | H |
| The lit cliffs give no sign | F |
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| Therefore to break the rest ye seek | S |
| The Narrow Seas to clear | T |
| Hark to the siren's whimpering shriek | S |
| The driven death is here | U |
| Look to your van a league away | P |
| What midnight terror stays | V |
| The bulk that checks against the spray | P |
| Her crackling tops ablaze | V |
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| Hit and hard hit The blow went home | W |
| The muffled knocking stroke | X |
| The steam that overruns the foam | W |
| The foam that thins to smoke | X |
| The smoke that clokes the deep aboil | Q |
| The deep that chokes her throes | N |
| Till streaked with ash and sleeked with oil | Q |
| The lukewarm whirlpools close | O |
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| A shadow down the sickened wave | Y |
| Long since her slayer fled | G |
| But hear their chattering quick fires rave | Y |
| Astern abeam ahead | G |
| Panic that shells the drifting spar | K |
| Loud waste with none to check | Z |
| Mad fear that rakes a scornful star | K |
| Or sweeps a consort's deck | Z |
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| Now while their silly smoke hangs thick | A2 |
| Now ere their wits they find | G |
| Lay in and lance them to the quick | A2 |
| Our gallied whales are blind | G |
| Good luck to those that see end end | G |
| Good bye to those that drown | F |
| For each his chance as chance shall send | G |
| And God for all Shut down | F |
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| The strength of twice three thousand horse | B |
| That serve the one command | G |
| The hand that heaves the headlong force | B |
| The hate that backs the hand | G |
| The doom bolt in the darkness freed | G |
| The mine that splits the main | F |
| The white hot wake the 'wildering speed | G |
| The Choosers of the Slain | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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