God Help Our Men At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDDEEFGHG IJIJJKKFFFFBGLG MNMNNOOPQF IGDG| The wild night comes like an owl to its lair | A |
| The black clouds follow fast | B |
| And the sun gleams die and the lightnings glare | A |
| And the ships go heaving past past past | B |
| The ships go heaving past | B |
| Bar the doors and higher higher | C |
| Pile the faggots on the fire | C |
| Now abroad by many a light | D |
| Empty seats there are to night | D |
| Empty seats that none may fill | E |
| For the storm grows louder still | E |
| How it surges and swells through the gorges and dells | F |
| Under the ledges and over the lea | G |
| Where a watery sound goeth moaning around | H |
| God help our men at sea | G |
| - | |
| Oh never a tempest blew on the shore | I |
| But that some heart did moan | J |
| For a darling voice it would hear no more | I |
| And a face that had left it lone lone lone | J |
| A face that had left it lone | J |
| I am watching by a pane | K |
| Darkened with the gusty rain | K |
| Watching through a mist of tears | F |
| Sad with thoughts of other years | F |
| For a brother I did miss | F |
| In a stormy time like this | F |
| Ah the torrent howls past like a fiend on the blast | B |
| Under the ledges and over the lea | G |
| And the pent waters gleam and the wild surges scream | L |
| God help our men at sea | G |
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| Ah Lord they may grope through the dark to find | M |
| Thy hand within the gale | N |
| And cries may rise on the wings of the wind | M |
| From mariners weary and pale pale pale | N |
| From mariners weary and pale | N |
| 'Tis a fearful thing to know | O |
| While the storm winds loudly blow | O |
| That a man can sometimes come | P |
| Too near to his father's home | Q |
| So that he shall kneel and say | F |
| 'Lord I would be far away ' | - |
| Ho the hurricanes roar round a dangerous shore | I |
| Under the ledges and over the lea | G |
| And there twinkles a light on the billows so white | D |
| God help our men at sea | G |
Henry Kendall
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