The Shadow Boatswain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH CJBJ JKBK CEFE LMCN COLO LLGL PLCL QRFR CSGS ATLT LULU VAUA RWCX CYCY GLCS VZLZ A2EFEDon't you know the sailing orders | A |
It is time to put to sea | B |
And the stranger in the harbor | C |
Sends a boat ashore for me | B |
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With the thunder of her canvas | D |
Coming on the wind again | E |
I can hear the Shadow Boatswain | F |
Piping to his shadow men | E |
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Is it firelight or morning | G |
That red flicker on the floor | H |
Your good by was braver sweetheart | I |
When I sailed away before | H |
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Think of this last lovely summer | C |
Love what ails the wind to night | J |
What's he saying in the chimney | B |
Turns your berry cheek so white | J |
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What a morning How the sunlight | J |
Sparkles on the outer bay | K |
Where the brig lies waiting for me | B |
To trip anchor and away | K |
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That's the Doomkeel You may know her | C |
By her clean run aft and then | E |
Don't you hear the Shadow Boatswain | F |
Piping to his shadow men | E |
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Off the freshening sea to windward | L |
Is it a white tern I hear | M |
Shrilling in the gusty weather | C |
Where the far sea line is clear | N |
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What a morning for departure | C |
How your blue eyes melt and shine | O |
Will you watch us from the headland | L |
Till we sink below the line | O |
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I can see the wind already | L |
Steer the scurf marks of the tide | L |
As we slip the wake of being | G |
Down the sloping world and wide | L |
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I can feel the vasty mountains | P |
Heave and settle under me | L |
And the Doomkeel veer and shudder | C |
Crumbling on the hollow sea | L |
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There's a call as when a white gull | Q |
Cries and beats across the blue | R |
That must be the Shadow Boatswain | F |
Piping to his shadow crew | R |
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There's a boding sound like winter | C |
When the pines begin to quail | S |
That must be the gray wind moaning | G |
In the belly of the sail | S |
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I can feel the icy fingers | A |
Creeping in upon my bones | T |
There must be a berg to windward | L |
Somewhere in these border zones | T |
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Stir the fire I love the sunlight | L |
Always loved my shipmate sun | U |
How the sunflowers beckon to me | L |
From the dooryard one by one | U |
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How the royal lady roses | V |
Strew this summer world of ours | A |
There'll be none in Lonely Haven | U |
It is too far north for flowers | A |
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There sweetheart And I must leave you | R |
What should touch my wife with tears | W |
There's no danger with the Master | C |
He has sailed the sea for years | X |
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With the sea wolves on her quarter | C |
And a white bone in her teeth | Y |
He will steer the shadow cruiser | C |
Dark before and doom beneath | Y |
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Down the last expanse till morning | G |
Flares above the broken sea | L |
And the midnight storm is over | C |
And the Isles are close alee | S |
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So some twilight when your roses | V |
Are all blown and it is June | Z |
You will turn your blue eyes seaward | L |
Through the white dusk of the moon | Z |
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Wondering as that far sea cry | A2 |
Comes upon the wind again | E |
And you hear the Shadow Boatswain | F |
Piping to his shadow men | E |
Bliss Carman (william)
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