Thy Ship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKDL MNOPQRS TUVWXYZA2O| Hadst thou a ship in whose vast hold lay stored | A |
| The priceless riches of all climes and lands | B |
| Say woudst thou let it float upon the seas | C |
| Unpiloted of fickle winds the sport | D |
| And of wild waves and hidden rocks the prey | E |
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| Thine is that ship and in its depths concealed | F |
| Lies all the wealth of this vast universe | G |
| Yea lies some part of God s omnipotence | H |
| The legacy divine of every soul | I |
| Thy will O man thy will is that great ship | J |
| And yet behold it drifting here and there | K |
| One moment lying motionless in port | D |
| Then on high seas by sudden impulse flung | L |
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| Then drying on the sands and yet again | M |
| Sent forth on idle quests to no man s land | N |
| To carry nothing and to nothing bring | O |
| Till worn and fretted by the aimless strife | P |
| And buffeted by vacillating winds | Q |
| It flounders on a rock or springs a leak | R |
| With all its unused treasures in the hold | S |
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| Go save thy ship thou sluggard that the wheel | T |
| And steer to knowledge glory and success | U |
| Great mariners have made the pathway plain | V |
| For thee to follow hold thou to the course | W |
| Of Concentration Channel and all things | X |
| Shall come in answer to thy swerveless wish | Y |
| As comes the needle to the magnet s call | Z |
| Or sunlight to the prisoned blade of grass | A2 |
| That yearns all winter for the kiss of spring | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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