A Captain Of The Press-gang. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH FFFF DIFI GJFJ KLFL DMFM NOFO PQGQ| Shipmate leave the ghostly shadows | A |
| Where thy boon companions throng | B |
| We will put to sea together | C |
| Through the twilight with a song | B |
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| Leering closer rank and girding | D |
| In this Black Port where we bide | E |
| Reel a thousand flaring faces | F |
| But escape is on the tide | E |
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| Let the tap rooms of the city | G |
| Reek till the red dawn comes round | H |
| There is better wine in plenty | G |
| On the cruise where we are bound | H |
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| I've aboard a hundred messmates | F |
| Better than these 'long shore knaves | F |
| There is wreckage on the shallows | F |
| It's the open sea that saves | F |
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| Hark lad dost not hear it calling | D |
| That's the voice thy father knew | I |
| When he took the King's good cutlass | F |
| In his grip and fought it through | I |
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| Who would palter at press money | G |
| When he heard that sea cry vast | J |
| That's the call makes lords of lubbers | F |
| When they ship before the mast | J |
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| Let thy cronies of the tavern | K |
| Keep their kisses bought with gold | L |
| On the high seas there are regions | F |
| Where the heart is never old | L |
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| Where the great winds every morning | D |
| Sweep the sea floor clean and white | M |
| And upon the steel blue arches | F |
| Burnish the great stars of night | M |
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| There the open hand will lose not | N |
| Nor the loosened tongue betray | O |
| Signed and with our sailing orders | F |
| We will clear before the day | O |
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| On the shining yards of heaven | P |
| See a wider dawn unfurled | Q |
| The eternal slaves of beauty | G |
| Are the masters of the world | Q |
Bliss Carman (william)
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