The Last Watch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDED FGBG BFEF BHBH IJKL AMEM NOBO EPKP EQRQ BBNB NSBS ATBT BUBU EVBV UUBU BUBU UBBB WQRQ RBUB| Comrades comrades have me buried | A |
| Like a warrior of the sea | B |
| With a flag across my breast | C |
| And my sword upon my knee | B |
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| Steering out from vanished headlands | B |
| For a harbor on no chart | D |
| With the winter in the rigging | E |
| With the ice wind in my heart | D |
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| Down the bournless slopes of sea room | F |
| With the long gray wake behind | G |
| I have sailed my cruiser steady | B |
| With no pilot but the wind | G |
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| Battling with relentless pirates | B |
| From the lower seas of Doom | F |
| I have kept the colors flying | E |
| Through the roar of drift and gloom | F |
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| Scudding where the shadow foemen | B |
| Hang about us grim and stark | H |
| Broken spars and shredded canvas | B |
| We are racing for the dark | H |
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| Sped and blown abaft the sunset | I |
| Like a shriek the storm has caught | J |
| But the helm is lashed to windward | K |
| And the sails are sheeted taut | L |
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| Comrades comrades have me buried | A |
| Like a warrior of the night | M |
| I can hear the bell buoy calling | E |
| Down below the harbor light | M |
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| Steer in shoreward loose the signal | N |
| The last watch has been cut short | O |
| Speak me kindly to the islesmen | B |
| When we make the foreign port | O |
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| We shall make it ere the morning | E |
| Rolls the fog from strait and bluff | P |
| Where the offing crimsons eastward | K |
| There is anchorage enough | P |
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| How I wander in my dreaming | E |
| Are we northing nearer home | Q |
| Or outbound for fresh adventure | R |
| On the reeling plains of foam | Q |
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| North I think it is my comrades | B |
| Where one heart beat counts for ten | B |
| Where the loving hand is loyal | N |
| And the women's sons are men | B |
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| Where the red auroras tremble | N |
| When the polar night is still | S |
| Lighting home the worn seafarers | B |
| To their haven in the hill | S |
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| Comrades comrades have me buried | A |
| Like a warrior of the North | T |
| Lower me the long boat stay me | B |
| In your arms and bear me forth | T |
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| Lay me in the sheets and row me | B |
| With the tiller in my hand | U |
| Row me in below the beacon | B |
| Where my sea dogs used to land | U |
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| Has your captain lost his cunning | E |
| After leading you so far | V |
| Row me your last league my sea kings | B |
| It is safe within the bar | V |
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| Shoulder me and house me hillward | U |
| Where the field lark makes his bed | U |
| So the gulls can wheel above me | B |
| All day long when I am dead | U |
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| Where the keening wind can find me | B |
| With the April rain for guide | U |
| And come crooning her old stories | B |
| Of the kingdoms of the tide | U |
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| Comrades comrades have me buried | U |
| Like a warrior of the sun | B |
| I have carried my sealed orders | B |
| Till the last command is done | B |
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| Kiss me on the cheek for courage | W |
| There is none to greet me home | Q |
| Then farewell to your old lover | R |
| Of the thunder of the foam | Q |
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| For the grass is full of slumber | R |
| In the twilight world for me | B |
| And my tired hands are slackened | U |
| From their toiling on the sea | B |
Bliss Carman (william)
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