When You Get Home, Remember Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGEHIJKL EMNMAOPO AOAO AQGQROOO STUTAOGO EMVMWOOO| Lieutenant De Long commanding the Jeannette Artic | A |
| Expedition having seen his vessel crushed by the ice | B |
| undertook a perilous journey through the ice and snow | C |
| toward the coast of Siberia With a part of his command | D |
| he finally reached the wilderness near the mouth of the | E |
| River Lena Disabled by sickness hunger and cold the | E |
| little band was compelled to halt while two of their | F |
| number went forward When the pathetic parting was over | G |
| and after the two seaman had begun their battle with the | E |
| snowdrifts they heard a call and on turning recognized | H |
| the voice of one of their officers feebly shouting When | I |
| you get to New York remember me From that group of | J |
| brave men these were the last words that ever reached | K |
| human ears | L |
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| Starving beside the frozen Lena | E |
| Perishing in a snow blockade | M |
| From a lone group of shipwrecked seamen | N |
| Two are sent forth to seek for aid | M |
| 'Tis a sad a solemn parting | A |
| Life or death who can foresee | O |
| Hark on the wind floats this last message | P |
| When you get home remember me | O |
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| Gallant and brave together clinging | A |
| True to the last with but this plea | O |
| Still in our ears its words are ringing | A |
| When you get home remember me | O |
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| Ready to sink yet persevering | A |
| Southward and helpward toil the twain | Q |
| Close in the rear an Artic winter | G |
| Binding the land with icy chain | Q |
| Weary wait the suff'ring comrades | R |
| Help they ask on bended knee | O |
| But to their friends come these words only | O |
| When you get home remember me | O |
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| Succor at last the twain find helpers | S |
| Shrieks the fierce gale Too late too late | T |
| Valiant De Long and brave companions | U |
| Manfully calmly meet their fate | T |
| One by one they lie down dying | A |
| All obey that stern decree | O |
| Last on their lips this plaintive whisper | G |
| When you get home remember me | O |
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| Starving beside the frozen Lena | E |
| Perishing in a snow blockade | M |
| Had we but known their need what thousands | V |
| Would have rejoiced to render aid | M |
| There was want while here abundance | W |
| Naught had they while plenty we | O |
| Shall we not heed their last entreaty | O |
| When you get home remember me | O |
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