Last Landfall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFEGEG HIHIJKJK LMLMANAN| 'Outgoing the Ooonah for Burnie' | A |
| How often the radio spoke | B |
| Till the stout little ship and her journey | A |
| Grew into a mild sort of joke | B |
| But no longer her donkeyman grapples | C |
| His slings by the sweet island shore | D |
| For a cargo of timber or apples | C |
| The Oonah goes sailing no more | D |
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| No more save the landfall she's making | E |
| The last on her funeral trip | F |
| To the land where she goes for her breaking | E |
| Grim graveyard of many a ship | F |
| And a few it may be will go grieving | E |
| To know of that busy craft's fate | G |
| Who many times hooved with her heaving | E |
| As Oonah rolled over the strait | G |
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| There many proud tall masted schooners | H |
| She passed in the night ships o' sail | I |
| While stars winked o'er fond honeymooners | H |
| Who whispered soft words by her rail | I |
| And tourists and grave politicians | J |
| Who knew the old Oonah full well | K |
| In all sorts of weather conditions | J |
| Have had many a story to tell | K |
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| And many a soul who sailed with her | L |
| Since Oonah first breasted the foam | M |
| Has taken the long voyage thither | L |
| To every man's ultimate home | M |
| Who knows now what mystical journey | A |
| Those sail to the sounds of high mirth | N |
| As a ghost ships heads hull down for Burnie | A |
| With a complement not of the earth | N |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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