Boat-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBB DEDECEE FGFGCGG| Pull away merrily over the waters | A |
| Bend to your oars for the wood tangled shore | B |
| We're off and afloat with earth's loveliest daughters | A |
| Worth all the argosies wave ever bore | B |
| Pull away gallantly pull away valiantly | C |
| Pull with a swoop boys and pull for the shore | B |
| Merrily merrily bend to the oar | B |
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| Pull away cheerily land is before us | D |
| Green groves are flinging their balm to the spray | E |
| The sky like the spirit of love bending o'er us | D |
| Lights her bright torches to show us the way | E |
| Pull away charily pull away warily | C |
| Pull with a nerve boys together give way | E |
| Merrily merrily pull to the lay | E |
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| Pull away heartily light winds are blowing | F |
| Crisping the ripples that dance at our side | G |
| The moon bathes in silver the path we are going | F |
| And night is arrayed in her robes like a bride | G |
| Pull away readily pull away steadily | C |
| Pull with a will boys and sing as we glide | G |
| Merrily merrily over the tide | G |
George Pope Morris
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