The Ship And The Boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOAO PQRQ FSTS| In the great ship Life we speed along | A |
| With sails and pennons spread | B |
| And tethered beside the great ship glide | C |
| The mystic boats for the dead | B |
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| Over the deck of the ship of Life | D |
| Our loved and lost we lower | E |
| And calm and steady his small boat ready | F |
| Death silently sits at the oar | G |
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| He rows our dead away from our sight | H |
| Away from our hearing or ken | I |
| We call and cry for a last good bye | J |
| But they never come back again | I |
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| The ship of Life bounds on and on | K |
| The river of Time runs fast | L |
| And yet more swift our dear dead drift | M |
| For ever back into the Past | L |
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| We do not forget those loved and lost | N |
| But they fade away like a dream | O |
| As we hurry along on the current strong | A |
| Of Time's great turbulent stream | O |
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| On and on and ever away | P |
| Our sails are filled by the wind | Q |
| We see new places we meet new faces | R |
| And the dead are far behind | Q |
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| Their boats have drifted into the sea | F |
| That laves God's holy feet | S |
| But the river's course too seeks that source | T |
| So the ship and the boat shall meet | S |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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