The Ships Of St. John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HDID HJKJ HLHD IHMH ABID IHNH ODPD QIRI HSKD TFIF USIDSmile you inland hills and rivers | A |
Flush you mountains in the dawn | B |
But my roving heart is seaward | C |
With the ships of gray St John | D |
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Fair the land lies full of August | E |
Meadow island shingly bar | F |
Open barns and breezy twilight | G |
Peace and the mild evening star | F |
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Gently now this gentlest country | H |
The old habitude takes on | D |
But my wintry heart is outbound | I |
With the great ships of St John | D |
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Once in your wide arms you held me | H |
Till the man child was a man | J |
Canada great nurse and mother | K |
Of the young sea roving clan | J |
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Always your bright face above me | H |
Through the dreams of boyhood shone | L |
Now far alien countries call me | H |
With the ships of gray St John | D |
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Swing you tides up out of Fundy | I |
Blow you white fogs in from sea | H |
I was born to be your fellow | M |
You were bred to pilot me | H |
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At the touch of your strong fingers | A |
Doubt the derelict is gone | B |
Sane and glad I clear the headland | I |
With the white ships of St John | D |
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Loyalists my fathers builded | I |
This gray port of the gray sea | H |
When the duty to ideals | N |
Could not let well being be | H |
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When the breadth of scarlet bunting | O |
Puts the wreath of maple on | D |
I must cheer too slip my moorings | P |
With the ships of gray St John | D |
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Peerless hearted port of heroes | Q |
Be a word to lift the world | I |
Till the many see the signal | R |
Of the few once more unfurled | I |
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Past the lighthouse past the nunbuoy | H |
Past the crimson rising sun | S |
There are dreams go down the harbor | K |
With the tall ships of St John | D |
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In the morning I am with them | T |
As they clear the island bar | F |
Fade till speck by speck the midday | I |
Has forgotten where they are | F |
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But I sight a vaster sea line | U |
Wider lee way longer run | S |
Whose discoverers return not | I |
With the ships of gray St John | D |
Bliss Carman (william)
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