Docks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBE FBGHBBHBHB IIG| Strolling along | A |
| By the teeming docks | B |
| I watch the ships put out | C |
| Black ships that heave and lunge | D |
| And move like mastodons | B |
| Arising from lethargic sleep | E |
| - | |
| The fathomed harbor | F |
| Calls them not nor dares | B |
| Them to a strain of action | G |
| But outward on and outward | H |
| Sounding low reverberating calls | B |
| Shaggy in the half lit distance | B |
| They pass the pointed headland | H |
| View the wide far lifting wilderness | B |
| And leap with cumulative speed | H |
| To test the challenge of the sea | B |
| - | |
| Plunging | I |
| Doggedly onward plunging | I |
| Into salt and mist and foam and sun | G |
Carl Sandburg
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