On The Loss Of The Royal George Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC BDED FDGD BHDI JKLK MNON PQPQ DNRS HRDC| Written when the news arrived | A |
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| Toll for the brave | B |
| The brave that are no more | C |
| All sunk beneath the wave | B |
| Fast by their native shore | C |
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| Eight hundred of the brave | B |
| Whose courage well was tried | D |
| Had made the vessel heel | E |
| And laid her on her side | D |
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| A land breeze shook the shrouds | F |
| And she was overset | D |
| Down went the Royal George | G |
| With all her crew complete | D |
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| Toll for the brave | B |
| Brave Kempenfelt is gone | H |
| His last sea fight is fought | D |
| His work of glory done | I |
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| It was not in the battle | J |
| No tempest gave the shock | K |
| She sprang no fatal leak | L |
| She ran upon no rock | K |
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| His sword was in its sheath | M |
| His fingers held the pen | N |
| When Kempenfelt went down | O |
| With twice four hundred men | N |
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| Weigh the vessel up | P |
| Once dreaded by our foes | Q |
| And mingle with our cup | P |
| The tears that England owes | Q |
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| Her timbers yet are sound | D |
| And she may float again | N |
| Full charged with England's thunder | R |
| And plough the distant main | S |
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| But Kempenfelt is gone | H |
| His victories are o'er | R |
| And he and his eight hundred | D |
| Shall plough the wave no more | C |
William Cowper
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