North Atlantic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFF BGFH IF JK LGEJ IMINOFPQRMF OBRS MTE UCCF VWWXYGB WRFGFRGZZ NFFNNF LFJ A2FB2NFFF ME GRB2| WHEN the sea is everywhere | A |
| from horizon to horizon | B |
| when the salt and blue | C |
| fill a circle of horizons | D |
| I swear again how I know | E |
| the sea is older than anything else | F |
| and the sea younger than anything else | F |
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| My first father was a landsman | B |
| My tenth father was a sea lover | G |
| a gipsy sea boy a singer of chanties | F |
| Oh Blow the Man Down | H |
| - | |
| The sea is always the same | I |
| and yet the sea always changes | F |
| - | |
| The sea gives all | J |
| and yet the sea keeps something back | K |
| - | |
| The sea takes without asking | L |
| The sea is a worker a thief and a loafer | G |
| Why does the sea let go so slow | E |
| Or never let go at all | J |
| - | |
| The sea always the same | I |
| day after day | M |
| the sea always the same | I |
| night after night | N |
| fog on fog and never a star | O |
| wind on wind and running white sheets | F |
| bird on bird always a sea bird | P |
| so the days get lost | Q |
| it is neither Saturday nor Monday | R |
| it is any day or no day | M |
| it is a year ten years | F |
| - | |
| Fog on fog and never a star | O |
| what is a man a child a woman | B |
| to the green and grinding sea | R |
| The ropes and boards squeak and groan | S |
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| On the land they know a child they have named Today | M |
| On the sea they know three children they have named | T |
| Yesterday Today To morrow | E |
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| I made a song to a woman it ran | U |
| I have wanted you | C |
| I have called to you | C |
| on a day I counted a thousand years | F |
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| In the deep of a sea blue noon | V |
| many women run in a man's head | W |
| phantom women leaping from a man's forehead | W |
| to the railings into the sea to the | X |
| sea rim | Y |
| a man's mother a man's wife other | G |
| women | B |
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| I asked a sure footed sailor how and he said | W |
| I have known many women but there is only one sea | R |
| I saw the North Star once | F |
| and our old friend The Big Dipper | G |
| only the sea between us | F |
| Take away the sea | R |
| and I lift The Dipper | G |
| swing the handle of it | Z |
| drink from the brim of it | Z |
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| I saw the North Star one night | N |
| and five new stars for me in the rigging ropes | F |
| and seven old stars in the cross of the wireless | F |
| plunging by night | N |
| plowing by night | N |
| Five new cool stars seven old warm stars | F |
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| I have been let down in a thousand graves by my kinfolk | L |
| I have been left alone with the sea and the sea's wife the wind for my last friends | F |
| And my kinfolk never knew anything about it at all | J |
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| Salt from an old work of eating our graveclothes is here | A2 |
| The sea kin of my thousand graves | F |
| The sea and the sea's wife the wind | B2 |
| They are all here to night | N |
| between the circle of horizons | F |
| between the cross of the wireless | F |
| and the seven old warm stars | F |
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| Out of a thousand sea holes I came yesterday | M |
| Out of a thousand sea holes I come to morrow | E |
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| I am kin of the changer | G |
| I am a son of the sea | R |
| and the sea's wife the wind | B2 |
Carl Sandburg
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