Will Sail Tomorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHHHEE HHIIJ KKEE LLHHMMNNEE| THE good ship lies in the crowded dock | A |
| Fair as a statue firm as a rock | A |
| Her tall masts piercing the still blue air | B |
| Her funnel glittering white and bare | B |
| Whence the long soft line of vapory smoke | C |
| Betwixt sky and sea like a vision broke | C |
| Or slowly o'er the horizon curled | D |
| Like a lost hope fled to the other world | D |
| She sails to morrow | E |
| Sails to morrow | E |
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| Out steps the captain busy and grave | F |
| With his sailor's footfall quick and brave | F |
| His hundred thoughts and his thousand cares | G |
| And his steady eye that all things dares | G |
| Though a little smile o'er the kind face dawns | H |
| On the loving brute that leaps and fawns | H |
| And a little shadow comes and goes | H |
| As if heart and fancy fled where who knows | H |
| He sails to morrow | E |
| Sails to morrow | E |
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| To morrow the serried line of ships | H |
| Will quick close after her as she slips | H |
| Into the unknown deep once more | I |
| To morrow to morrow some on shore | I |
| With straining eyes shall desperate yearn | J |
| 'This is not parting return return ' | - |
| Peace wild wrung hands hush sobbing breath | K |
| Love keepeth its own through life and death | K |
| Though she sails to morrow | E |
| Sails to morrow | E |
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| Sail stately ship down Southampton water | L |
| Gliding fair as old Nereus' daughter | L |
| Christian ship that for burthen bears | H |
| Christians speeded by Christian prayers | H |
| All kinds of angels follow her track | M |
| Pitiful God bring the good ship back | M |
| All the souls in her forever keep | N |
| Thine living or dying awake or asleep | N |
| Then sail to morrow | E |
| Ship sail to morrow | E |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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