Bag-pipes At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG HIHI JKJK| Above the shouting of the gale | A |
| The whipping sheet the dashing spray | B |
| I heard with notes of joy and wail | A |
| A piper play | B |
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| Along the dipping deck he trod | C |
| The dusk about his shadowy form | D |
| He seemed like some strange ancient god | C |
| Of song and storm | D |
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| He gave his dim seen pipes a skirl | B |
| And war went down the darkling air | E |
| Then came a sudden subtle swirl | B |
| And love was there | E |
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| What were the winds that flailed and flayed | F |
| The sea to him the night obscure | G |
| In dreams he strayed some brackened glade | F |
| Some heathery moor | G |
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| And if he saw the slanting spars | H |
| And if he watched the shifting track | I |
| He marked too the eternal stars | H |
| Shine through the wrack | I |
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| And so amid the deep sea din | J |
| And so amid the wastes of foam | K |
| Afar his heart was happy in | J |
| His highland home | K |
Clinton Scollard
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