The Battle Of The Bight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCB DEDEFFFF GHGHIIIH JKJLMMNL| Had I the fabled herb | A |
| That brought to life the dead | B |
| Whom would I dare disturb | A |
| In his eternal bed | B |
| Great Grenville would I wake | C |
| And with glad tidings make | C |
| The soul of mighty Drake | C |
| Heave up a glorying head | B |
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| As rose the misty sun | D |
| Our men the North Sea scanned | E |
| And each rejoicing gun | D |
| Welcomed a Foe at hand | E |
| And thundering its delight | F |
| Opened its mouth outright | F |
| And bit them in the Bight | F |
| The Bight of Helgoland | F |
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| With Captains who could each | G |
| Do aught but yield or flee | H |
| With guns that spake the speech | G |
| Shall keep this Kingdom free | H |
| We hammered to their doom | I |
| Four Giants mid the gloom | I |
| And one to a fiercer tomb | I |
| Sent blazing down the sea | H |
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| Sleep on O Drake sleep well | J |
| In days not wholly dire | K |
| Grenville whom nought could quell | J |
| Unquenched is still thy fire | L |
| And thou that hadst no peer | M |
| Nelson thou need'st not fear | M |
| Thy sons and heirs are here | N |
| Nor shall they shame their sire | L |
William Watson
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