The Burial Of The Dane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDED FGHG HHG BIJI IBIBHB IGBGHG AKEKBK HHHHLH MENEGE IBEB ABBB| BLUE gulf all around us | A |
| Blue sky overhead | B |
| Muster all on the quarter | C |
| We must bury the dead | B |
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| It is but a Danish sailor | C |
| Rugged of front and form | D |
| A common son of the forecastle | E |
| Grizzled with sun and storm | D |
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| His name and the strand he hailed from | F |
| We know and there's nothing more | G |
| But perhaps his mother is waiting | H |
| In the lonely Island of Fohr | G |
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| Still as he lay there dying | H |
| Reason drifting awreck | H |
| ''T is my watch ' he would mutter | G |
| 'I must go upon deck ' | - |
| - | |
| Aye on deck by the foremast | B |
| But watch and lookout are done | I |
| The Union Jack laid o'er him | J |
| How quiet he lies in the sun | I |
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| Slow the ponderous engine | I |
| Stay the hurrying shaft | B |
| Let the roll of the ocean | I |
| Cradle our giant craft | B |
| Gather around the grating | H |
| Carry your messmate aft | B |
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| Stand in order and listen | I |
| To the holiest page of prayer | G |
| Let every foot be quiet | B |
| Every head be bare | G |
| The soft trade wind is lifting | H |
| A hundred locks of hair | G |
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| Our captain reads the service | A |
| A little spray on his cheeks | K |
| The grand old words of burial | E |
| And the trust a true heart seeks | K |
| 'We therefore commit his body | B |
| To the deep' and as he speaks | K |
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| Launched from the weather railing | H |
| Swift as the eye can mark | H |
| The ghastly shotted hammock | H |
| Plunges away from the shark | H |
| Down a thousand fathoms | L |
| Down into the dark | H |
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| A thousand summers and winters | M |
| The stormy Gulf shall roll | E |
| High o'er his canvas coffin | N |
| But silence to doubt and dole | E |
| There's a quiet harbor somewhere | G |
| For the poor aweary soul | E |
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| Free the fettered engine | I |
| Speed the tireless shaft | B |
| Loose to'gallant and topsail | E |
| The breeze is far abaft | B |
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| Blue sea all around us | A |
| Blue sky bright o'erhead | B |
| Every man to his duty | B |
| We have buried our dead | B |
Henry Howard
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