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Ballad Of The Long-legged Bait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The bows glided down and the coast	A
Blackened with birds took a last look	B
At his thrashing hair and whale blue eye	C
The trodden town rang its cobbles for luck	D
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Then good bye to the fishermanned	A
Boat with its anchor free and fast	A
As a bird hooking over the sea	E
High and dry by the top of the mast	A
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Whispered the affectionate sand	A
And the bulwarks of the dazzled quay	E
For my sake sail and never look back	F
Said the looking land	A
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Sails drank the wind and white as milk	G
He sped into the drinking dark	H
The sun shipwrecked west on a pearl	I
And the moon swam out of its hulk	J
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Funnels and masts went by in a whirl	I
Good bye to the man on the sea legged deck	K
To the gold gut that sings on his reel	L
To the bait that stalked out of the sack	F
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For we saw him throw to the swift flood	A
A girl alive with his hooks through her lips	M
All the fishes were rayed in blood	A
Said the dwindling ships	M
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Good bye to chimneys and funnels	N
Old wives that spin in the smoke	O
He was blind to the eyes of candles	N
In the praying windows of waves	P
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But heard his bait buck in the wake	Q
And tussle in a shoal of loves	R
Now cast down your rod for the whole	S
Of the sea is hilly with whales	T
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She longs among horses and angels	N
The rainbow fish bend in her joys	U
Floated the lost cathedral	V
Chimes of the rocked buoys	W
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Where the anchor rode like a gull	V
Miles over the moonstruck boat	A
A squall of birds bellowed and fell	X
A cloud blew the rain from its throat	A
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He saw the storm smoke out to kill	Y
With fuming bows and ram of ice	Z
Fire on starlight rake Jesu's stream	A2
And nothing shone on the water's face	B2
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But the oil and bubble of the moon	C2
Plunging and piercing in his course	D2
The lured fish under the foam	E2
Witnessed with a kiss	F2
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Whales in the wake like capes and Alps	G2
Quaked the sick sea and snouted deep	H2
Deep the great bushed bait with raining lips	M
Slipped the fins of those humpbacked tons	I2
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And fled their love in a weaving dip	J2
Oh Jericho was falling in their lungs	K2
She nipped and dived in the nick of love	L2
Spun on a spout like a long legged ball	M2
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Till every beast blared down in a swerve	N2
Till every turtle crushed from his shell	X
Till every bone in the rushing grave	O2
Rose and crowed and fell	X
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Good luck to the hand on the rod	A
There is thunder under its thumbs	P2
Gold gut is a lightning thread	A
His fiery reel sings off its flames	Q2
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The whirled boat in the burn of his blood	A
Is crying from nets to knives	R2
Oh the shearwater birds and their boatsized brood	A
Oh the bulls of Biscay and their calves	S2
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Are making under the green laid veil	T2
The long legged beautiful bait their wives	R2
Break the black news and paint on a sail	T2
Huge weddings in the waves	P
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Over the wakeward flashing spray	U2
Over the gardens of the floor	V2
Clash out the mounting dolphin's day	U2
My mast is a bell spire	W2
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Strike and smoothe for my decks are drums	P2
Sing through the water spoken prow	X2
The octopus walking into her limbs	Y2
The polar eagle with his tread of snow	Z2
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From salt lipped beak to the kick of the stern	A3
Sing how the seal has kissed her dead	A
The long laid minute's bride drifts on	B3
Old in her cruel bed	A
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Over the graveyard in the water	C3
Mountains and galleries beneath	D3
Nightingale and hyena	E3
Rejoicing for that drifting death	F3
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Sing and howl through sand and anemone	G3
Valley and sahara in a shell	X
Oh all the wanting flesh his enemy	E
Thrown to the sea in the shell of a girl	I
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Is old as water and plain as an eel	L
Always good bye to the long legged bread	A
Scattered in the paths of his heels	H3
For the salty birds fluttered and fed	A
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And the tall grains foamed in their bills	I3
Always good bye to the fires of the face	B2
For the crab backed dead on the sea bed rose	J3
And scuttled over her eyes	K3
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The blind clawed stare is cold as sleet	A
The tempter under the eyelid	A
Who shows to the selves asleep	H2
Mast high moon white women naked	A
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Walking in wishes and lovely for shame	L3
Is dumb and gone with his flame of brides	M3
Susannah's drowned in the bearded stream	A2
And no one stirs at Sheba's side	A
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But the hungry kings of the tides	M3
Sin who had a woman's shape	N3
Sleeps till Silence blows on a cloud	A
And all the lifted waters walk and leap	H2
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Lucifer that bird's dropping	O3
Out of the sides of the north	P3
Has melted away and is lost	A
Is always lost in her vaulted breath	F3
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Venus lies star struck in her wound	A
And the sensual ruins make	Q
Seasons over the liquid world	A
White springs in the dark	H
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Always good bye cried the voices through the shell	X
Good bye always for the flesh is cast	A
And the fisherman winds his reel	L
With no more desire than a ghost	A
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Always good luck praised the finned in the feather	C3
Bird after dark and the laughing fish	Q3
As the sails drank up the hail of thunder	C3
And the long tailed lightning lit his catch	R3
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The boat swims into the six year weather	C3
A wind throws a shadow and it freezes fast	A
See what the gold gut drags from under	C3
Mountains and galleries to the crest	A
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See what clings to hair and skull	V
As the boat skims on with drinking wings	S3
The statues of great rain stand still	Y
And the flakes fall like hills	I3
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Sing and strike his heavy haul	M2
Toppling up the boatside in a snow of light	A
His decks are drenched with miracles	N
Oh miracle of fishes The long dead bite	A
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Out of the urn a size of a man	T3
Out of the room the weight of his trouble	V
Out of the house that holds a town	U3
In the continent of a fossil	V
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One by one in dust and shawl	M2
Dry as echoes and insect faced	A
His fathers cling to the hand of the girl	I
And the dead hand leads the past	A
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Leads them as children and as air	V3
On to the blindly tossing tops	W3
The centuries throw back their hair	V3
And the old men sing from newborn lips	M
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Time is bearing another son	X3
Kill Time She turns in her pain	Y3
The oak is felled in the acorn	Z3
And the hawk in the egg kills the wren	A4
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He who blew the great fire in	B4
And died on a hiss of flames	Q2
Or walked the earth in the evening	O3
Counting the denials of the grains	C4
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Clings to her drifting hair and climbs	D4
And he who taught their lips to sing	O3
Weeps like the risen sun among	E4
The liquid choirs of his tribes	F4
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The rod bends low divining land	A
And through the sundered water crawls	G4
A garden holding to her hand	A
With birds and animals	N
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With men and women and waterfalls	G4
Trees cool and dry in the whirlpool of ships	M
And stunned and still on the green laid veil	T2
Sand with legends in its virgin laps	H4
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And prophets loud on the burned dunes	I4
Insects and valleys hold her thighs hard	A
Times and places grip her breast bone	G3
She is breaking with seasons and clouds	J4
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Round her trailed wrist fresh water weaves	K4
with moving fish and rounded stones	L4
Up and down the greater waves	P
A separate river breathes and runs	I2
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Strike and sing his catch of fields	M4
For the surge is sown with barley	E
The cattle graze on the covered foam	E2
The hills have footed the waves away	U2
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With wild sea fillies and soaking bridles	M4
With salty colts and gales in their limbs	M4
All the horses of his haul of miracles	M4
Gallop through the arched green farms	M4
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Trot and gallop with gulls upon them	N4
And thunderbolts in their manes	M4
O Rome and Sodom To morrow and London	X3
The country tide is cobbled with towns	M4
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And steeples pierce the cloud on her shoulder	C3
And the streets that the fisherman combed	A
When his long legged flesh was a wind on fire	C3
And his loin was a hunting flame	L3
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Coil from the thoroughfares of her hair	V3
And terribly lead him home alive	O4
Lead her prodigal home to his terror	C3
The furious ox killing house of love	L2
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Down down down under the ground	A
Under the floating villages	M4
Turns the moon chained and water wound	A
Metropolis of fishes	M4
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There is nothing left of the sea but its sound	A
Under the earth the loud sea walks	M4
In deathbeds of orchards the boat dies down	U3
And the bait is drowned among hayricks	M4
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Land land land nothing remains	M4
Of the pacing famous sea but its speech	P4
And into its talkative seven	X3