The Home-coming Of The 'eurydice' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DED FGF HCHC DGD HHHH IJI DKDK ILIL BGB| Lost with her crew of three hundred boys on the last day of her voyage March She foundered off Portsmouth from which town many of the boys came | A |
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| Up with the royals that top the white spread of her | B |
| Press her and dress her and drive through the foam | C |
| The Island's to port and the mainland ahead of her | B |
| Hey for the Warner and Hayling and Home | C |
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| Bo'sun O Bo'sun just look at the green of it | D |
| Look at the red cattle down by the hedge | E |
| Look at the farmsteading all that is seen of it | D |
| One little gable end over the edge ' | - |
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| 'Lord the tongues of them clattering clattering | F |
| All growing wild at a peep of the Wight | G |
| Aye sir aye it has set them all chattering | F |
| Thinking of home and their mothers to night ' | - |
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| Spread the topgallants oh lay them out lustily | H |
| What though it darken o'er Netherby Combe | C |
| 'Tis but the valley wind puffing so gustily | H |
| On for the Warner and Hayling and Home | C |
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| 'Bo'sun O Bo'sun just see the long slope of it | D |
| Culver is there with the cliff and the light | G |
| Tell us oh tell us now is there a hope of it | D |
| Shall we have leave for our homes for to night ' | - |
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| 'Tut the clack of them Steadily Steadily | H |
| Aye as you say sir they're little ones still | H |
| One long reach should open it readily | H |
| Round by St Helens and under the hill | H |
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| 'The Spit and the Nab are the gates of the promise | I |
| Their mothers to them and to us it's our wives | J |
| I've sailed forty years and By God it's upon us | I |
| Down royals Down top'sles down down for your lives ' | - |
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| A grey swirl of snow with the squall at the back of it | D |
| Heeling her reeling her beating her down | K |
| A gleam of her bends in the thick of the wrack of it | D |
| A flutter of white in the eddies of brown | K |
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| It broke in one moment of blizzard and blindness | I |
| The next like a foul bat it flapped on its way | L |
| But our ship and our boys Gracious Lord in your kindness | I |
| Give help to the mothers who need it to day | L |
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| Give help to the women who wait by the water | B |
| Who stand on the Hard with their eyes past the Wight | G |
| Ah whisper it gently you sister or daughter | B |
| 'Our boys are all gathered at home for to night ' | - |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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