The Nancy's Pride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MCCC DNON PQAQ RASA PCTC LCAC CBCB CCCC CCJC UBVB WXYX QCZCOn the long slow heave of a lazy sea | A |
To the flap of an idle sail | B |
The Nancy's Pride went out on the tide | C |
And the skipper stood by the rail | B |
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All down all down by the sleepy town | D |
With the hollyhocks a row | E |
In the little poppy gardens | F |
The sea had her in tow | E |
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They let her slip by the breathing rip | G |
Where the bell is never still | H |
And over the sounding harbor bar | I |
And under the harbor hill | H |
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She melted into the dreaming noon | J |
Out of the drowsy land | K |
In sight of a flag of goldy hair | L |
To the kiss of a girlish hand | K |
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For the lass who hailed the lad who sailed | M |
Was who but his April bride | C |
And of all the fleet of Grand Latite | C |
Her pride was the Nancy's Pride | C |
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So the little vessel faded down | D |
With her creaking boom a swing | N |
Till a wind from the deep came up with a creep | O |
And caught her wing and wing | N |
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She made for the lost horizon line | P |
Where the clouds a castled lay | Q |
While the boil and seethe of the open sea | A |
Hung on her frothing way | Q |
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She lifted her hull like a breasting gull | R |
Where the rolling valleys be | A |
And dipped where the shining porpoises | S |
Put ploughshares through the sea | A |
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A fading sail on the far sea line | P |
About the turn of the tide | C |
As she made for the Banks on her maiden cruise | T |
Was the last of the Nancy's Pride | C |
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To day a boy with goldy hair | L |
In a garden of Grand Latite | C |
From his mother's knee looks out to sea | A |
For the coming of the fleet | C |
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They all may home on a sleepy tide | C |
To the flap of the idle sail | B |
But it's never again the Nancy's Pride | C |
That answers a human hail | B |
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They all may home on a sleepy tide | C |
To the sag of an idle sheet | C |
But it's never again the Nancy's Pride | C |
That draws men down the street | C |
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On the Banks to night a fearsome sight | C |
The fishermen behold | C |
Keeping the ghost watch in the moon | J |
When the small hours are cold | C |
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When the light wind veers and the white fog clears | U |
They see by the after rail | B |
An unknown schooner creeping up | V |
With mildewed spar and sail | B |
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Her crew lean forth by the rotting shrouds | W |
With the Judgment in their face | X |
And to their mates' God save you | Y |
Have never a word of grace | X |
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Then into the gray they sheer away | Q |
On the awful polar tide | C |
And the sailors know they have seen the wraith | Z |
Of the missing Nancy's Pride | C |
Bliss Carman (william)
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