Old Ships Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACA DADAEE| There is a memory stays upon old ships | A |
| A weightless cargo in the musty hold | B |
| Of bright lagoons and prow caressing lips | A |
| Of stormy midnights and a tale untold | B |
| They have remembered islands in the dawn | C |
| And windy capes that tried their slender spars | A |
| And tortuous channels where their keels have gone | C |
| And calm blue nights of stillness and the stars | A |
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| Ah never think that ships forget a shore | D |
| Or bitter seas or winds that made them wise | A |
| There is a dream upon them evermore | D |
| And there be some who say that sunk ships rise | A |
| To seek familiar harbors in the night | E |
| Blowing in mists their spectral sails like light | E |
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