Poet Henry Newbolt

Henry Newbolt

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Messmates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE DFDFCCDE GHGHCCDE

He gave us all a good bye cheerilyA
At the first dawn of dayB
We dropped him down the side full drearilyA
When the light died awayB
It's a dead dark watch that he's a keeping thereC
And a long long night that lags a creeping thereC
Where the Trades and the tides roll over himD
And the great ships go byE
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He's there alone with green seas rocking himD
For a thousand miles roundF
He's there alone with dumb things mocking himD
And we're homeward boundF
It's a long lone watch that he's a keeping thereC
And a dead cold night that lags a creeping thereC
While the months and the years roll over himD
And the great ships go byE
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I wonder if the tramps come near enoughG
As they thrash to and froH
And the battle ships' bells ring clear enoughG
To be heard down belowH
If through all the lone watch that he's a keeping thereC
And the long cold night that lags a creeping thereC
The voices of the sailor men shall comfort himD
When the great ships go byE

Henry Newbolt



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