Kilmeny (a Song Of The Trawlers) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBD AAAABDBD AAAAECBD BCBD| Dark dark lay the drifters against the red west | A |
| As they shot their long meshes of steel overside | A |
| And the oily green waters were rocking to rest | A |
| When Kilmeny went out at the turn of the tide | A |
| And nobody knew where that lassie would roam | B |
| For the magic that called her was tapping unseen | C |
| It was well nigh a week ere Kilmeny came home | B |
| And nobody knew hwere Kilmeny had been | D |
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| She'd a gun at her bow that was Newcastle's best | A |
| And a gun at her stern that was fresh from the Clyde | A |
| And a secret her skipper had never confessed | A |
| Not even at dawn to his newly wed bride | A |
| And a wireless that whispered above like a gnome | B |
| The laughter of London the boasts of Berlin | D |
| O it may have been mermaids that lured her from home | B |
| But nobody knew where Kilmeny had been | D |
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| It was dark when Kilmeny came home from her quest | A |
| With her bridge dabbled red where her skipper had died | A |
| But she moved like a bride with a rose at her breast | A |
| And Well done Kilmeny the admiral cried | A |
| Now at sixty four fathom a conger may come | E |
| And nose at the bones of a drowned submarine | C |
| But late in the evening Kilmeny came home | B |
| And nobody knew where Kilmeny had been | D |
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| There's a wandering shadow that stares at the foam | B |
| Though they sing all night to old England their queen | C |
| Late late in the evening Kilmeny came home | B |
| And nobody knew where Kilmeny had been | D |
Alfred Noyes
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