The Non-combatant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMJNOPAmong a race high handed strong of heart | A |
Sea rovers conquerors builders in the waste | B |
He had his birth a nature too complete | C |
Eager and doubtful no man's soldier sworn | D |
And no man's chosen captain born to fail | E |
A name without an echo yet he too | F |
Within the cloister of his narrow days | G |
Fulfilled the ancestral rites and kept alive | H |
The eternal fire it may be not in vain | I |
For out of those who dropped a downward glance | J |
Upon the weakling huddled at his prayers | K |
Perchance some looked beyond him and then first | L |
Beheld the glory and what shrine it filled | M |
And to what Spirit sacred or perchance | J |
Some heard him chanting though but to himself | N |
The old heroic names and went their way | O |
And hummed his music on the march to death | P |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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