The Ships That Won't Go Down Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGHG AIJIKDID ILILJGAG| We hear a great commotion | A |
| 'Bout the ship that comes to grief | B |
| That founders in mid ocean | A |
| Or is driven on a reef | B |
| Because it's cheap and brittle | C |
| A score of sinners drown | D |
| But we hear but mighty little | C |
| Of the ships that won't go down | D |
| - | |
| Here's honour to the builders | E |
| The builders of the past | F |
| Here's honour to the builders | E |
| That builded ships to last | F |
| Here's honour to the captain | A |
| And honour to the crew | G |
| Here's double column headlines | H |
| To the ships that battle through | G |
| - | |
| They make a great sensation | A |
| About famous men that fail | I |
| That sink a world of chances | J |
| In the city morgue or gaol | I |
| Who drink or blow their brains out | K |
| Because of Fortune's frown | D |
| But we hear far too little | I |
| Of the men who won't go down | D |
| - | |
| The world is full of trouble | I |
| And the world is full of wrong | L |
| But the heart of man is noble | I |
| And the heart of man is strong | L |
| They say the sea sings dirges | J |
| But I would say to you | G |
| That the wild wave's song's a paean | A |
| For the men that battle through | G |
Henry Lawson
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