The Anchor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEDD FEGG AABB| Firm trust of the bold sailor on the shores of sudden storm | A |
| What strength is in its structure and the fitness of its form | A |
| Old ocean s bed rock gripping with the hurricane s tug twill cope | B |
| And therefore tis the emblem held of man s eternal hope | B |
| Through the billows ceaseless raging by the bleak and stormy steep | C |
| Like a thunderbolt down rushing it is shot into the deep | C |
| Down where some mute sea monster its so hideous bulk uprears | D |
| And mightiest silence drowned hath lain for many a thousand years | D |
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| In some famed bay of battle when tis plunged with sullen roar | E |
| In the Nile In Navarino or by Danish Elsinore | E |
| How deep there shall its slumbers be beneath the sounding waves | D |
| Amid the bones of gallant tars in glory s watery graves | D |
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| In the bright and landlocked harbour the weary voyage o er | F |
| When only pleasant breezes breathe sweet welcome from the shore | E |
| Its massive form down dropping to its quiet bed below | G |
| Gives signal to the first glad boat that beachward pants to go | G |
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| In the calm thou firm fixed surety thou strong helper in the storm | A |
| Even a child when first beholding all the fitness of thy form | A |
| Might well divine the dangers wherewithal tis thine to cope | B |
| And take thee as the emblem meet of man s eternal hope | B |
Charles Harpur
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