To John J. Knickerbocker, Jr. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FBFBGHGH IJIJKJKJ GBGBGJGJ| Whereas good friend it doth appear | A |
| You do possess the notion | B |
| To his awhile away from here | C |
| To lands across the ocean | B |
| Now by these presents we would show | D |
| That wheresoever wend you | E |
| And wheresoever gales may blow | D |
| Our friendship shall attend you | E |
| - | |
| What though on Scotia's banks and braes | F |
| You pluck the bonnie gowan | B |
| Or chat of old Chicago days | F |
| O'er Berlin brew with Cowen | B |
| What though you stroll some boulevard | G |
| In Paris c'est la belle ville | H |
| Or make the round of Scotland Yard | G |
| With our lamented Melville | H |
| - | |
| Shall paltry leagues of foaming brine | I |
| True heart from true hearts sever | J |
| No in this draught of honest wine | I |
| We pledge it comrade never | J |
| Though mountain waves between us roll | K |
| Come fortune or disaster | J |
| 'Twill knit us closer soul to soul | K |
| And bind our friendships faster | J |
| - | |
| So here's a bowl that shall be quaff'd | G |
| To loyalty's devotion | B |
| And here's to fortune that shall waft | G |
| Your ship across the ocean | B |
| And here's a smile for those who prate | G |
| Of Davy Jones's locker | J |
| And here's a pray'r in every fate | G |
| God bless you Knickerbocker | J |
Eugene Field
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