Sailor's Harbor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKKLM KNONKKP QKRLKSN| My thoughts like sailors becalmed in Cape Town harbor | A |
| Await your return like a favorable wind or like | B |
| New tackle for the voyage without which it is useless starting | C |
| We watch the sea daily finish our daily tasks | D |
| By ten in the morning and with the day to waste | E |
| Wander through the suburbs with quiet thoughts of the brothels | F |
| And sometimes thoughts of the churches | G |
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| In the eating houses we always contrive to get near to | H |
| The window where we can keep an eye on the life | I |
| Bearing sea Suddenly a wind might blow and we must not miss | J |
| First sight of the waves as they darken with promise for us | K |
| We have been here too long We know the quays | K |
| And the streets near the quays more than should ever be necessary | L |
| When can we go on our way | M |
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| Certain we are of this that when the wind comes | K |
| It may be deceptive and sweet and finally blow | N |
| To shipwreck and ruin between here and the next port of call | O |
| At all times we think of this At last we have come to know | N |
| The marine charts can safely assure us of less and less | K |
| As we go farther south So we cannot go out on the boulevards | K |
| Or climb Table Mountain | P |
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| Though if we had certainty here there might be delight | Q |
| But all that is world in itself the mountain the streets | K |
| The sand dunes outside the town we shyly and sadly return from | R |
| They are too much to bear And our curiosity | L |
| Lies alone in the over scrubbed decks and the polished brasses | K |
| For we have to look trim in the port and in | S |
| The high piled ambiguous cargo | N |
Henry Reed
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