Minora Sidera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLMSitting at times over a hearth that burns | A |
With dull domestic glow | B |
My thought leaving the book gratefully turns | A |
To you who planned it so | B |
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Not of the great only you deigned to tell | C |
The stars by which we steer | D |
But lights out of the night that flashed and fell | C |
Tonight again are here | E |
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Such as were those dogs of an elder day | F |
Who sacked the golden ports | G |
And those later who dared grapple their prey | F |
Beneath the harbour forts | G |
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Some with flag at the fore sweeping the world | H |
To find an equal fight | I |
And some who joined war to their trade and hurled | H |
Ships of the line in flight | I |
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Whether their fame centuries long should ring | J |
They cared not over much | K |
But cared greatly to serve God and the king | J |
And keep the Nelson touch | K |
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And fought to build Britain above the tide | L |
Of wars and windy fate | M |
And passed content leaving to us the pride | L |
Of lives obscurely great | M |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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