The Pirates In England Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHJ KLKL MNMO GPGP QBQB| When Rome was rotten ripe to her fall | A |
| And the sceptre passed from her hand | B |
| The pestilent Picts leaped over the wall | A |
| To harry the English land | B |
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| The little dark men of the mountain and waste | C |
| So quick to laughter and tears | D |
| They came panting with hate and haste | C |
| For the loot of five hundred years | E |
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| They killed the trader they sacked the shops | F |
| They ruined temple and town | G |
| They swept like wolves through the standing crops | F |
| Crying that Rome was down | G |
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| They wiped out all that they could find | H |
| Of beauty and strength and worth | I |
| But they could not wipe out the Viking's Wind | H |
| That brings the ships from the North | J |
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| They could not wipe out the North East gales | K |
| Nor what those gales set free | L |
| The pirate ships with their close reefed sails | K |
| Leaping from sea to sea | L |
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| They had forgotten the shield hung hull | M |
| Seen nearer and more plain | N |
| Dipping into the troughs like a gull | M |
| And gull like rising again | O |
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| The painted eyes that glare and frown | G |
| In the high snake headed stem | P |
| Searching the beach while her sail comes down | G |
| They had forgotten them | P |
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| There was no Count of the Saxon Shore | Q |
| To meet her hand to hand | B |
| As she took the beach with a grind and a roar | Q |
| And the pirates rushed inland | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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