At Eighty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHGIJKLKMNOKK| Push the boat out compa eros | A |
| push the boat out whatever the sea | B |
| Who says we cannot guide ourselves | C |
| through the boiling reefs black as they are | D |
| the enemy of us all makes sure of it | E |
| Mariners keep good watch always | F |
| for that last passage of blue water | G |
| we have heard of and long to reach | H |
| no matter if we cannot no matter | G |
| in our eighty year old timbers | I |
| leaky and patched as they are but sweet | J |
| well seasoned with the scent of woods | K |
| long perished serviceable still | L |
| in unarrested pungency | K |
| of salt and blistering sunlight Out | M |
| push it all out into the unknown | N |
| Unknown is best it beckons best | O |
| like distant ships in mist or bells | K |
| clanging ruthless from stormy buoys | K |
Edwin Morgan
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