The French Wars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG FFFF FFHH IIFF| Napoleonic | A |
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| The boats of Newhaven and Folkestone and Dover | B |
| To Dieppe and Boulogne and to Calais cross over | B |
| And in each of those runs there is not a square yard | C |
| Where the English and French haven't fought and fought hard | C |
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| If the ships that were sunk could be floated once more | D |
| They'd stretch like a raft from the shore to the shore | D |
| And we'd see as we crossed every pattern and plan | E |
| Of ship that was built since sea fighting began | E |
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| There'd be biremes and brigantines cutters and sloops | F |
| Cogs carracks and galleons with gay gilded poops | F |
| Hoys caravels ketches corvettes and the rest | G |
| As thick as regattas from Ramsgate to Brest | G |
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| But the galley's of Caesar the squadrons of Sluys | F |
| And Nelson's crack frigates are hid from our eyes | F |
| Where the high Seventy fours of Napoleon's days | F |
| Lie down with Deal luggers and French chasse marees | F |
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| They'll answer no signal they rest on the ooze | F |
| With their honey combed guns and their skeleton crews | F |
| And racing above them through sunshine or gale | H |
| The Cross Channel packets come in with the Mail | H |
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| Then the poor sea sick passengers English and French | I |
| Must open their trunks on the Custom house bench | I |
| While the officers rummage for smuggled cigars | F |
| And nobody thinks of our blood thirsty wars | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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