Homeward Bound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ CKLK CMCM ANAN OPQP| Home for my heart still calls me | A |
| Home through the danger zone | B |
| Home whatever befalls me | A |
| I will sail again to my own | B |
| - | |
| Wolves of the sea are hiding | C |
| Closely along the way | D |
| Under the water biding | C |
| Their moment to rend and slay | D |
| - | |
| Black is the eagle that brands them | E |
| Black are their hearts as the night | F |
| Black is the hate that sends them | E |
| To murder but not to fight | F |
| - | |
| Flower of the German Culture | G |
| Boast of the Kaiser's Marine | H |
| Choose for your emblem the vulture | G |
| Cowardly cruel obscene | H |
| - | |
| Forth from her sheltered haven | I |
| Our peaceful ship glides slow | J |
| Noiseless in flight as a raven | I |
| Gray as a hoodie crow | J |
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| She doubles and turns in her bearing | C |
| Like a twisting plover she goes | K |
| The way of her westward faring | L |
| Only the captain knows | K |
| - | |
| In a lonely bay concealing | C |
| She lingers for days and slips | M |
| At dusk from her covert stealing | C |
| Thro' channels feared by the ships | M |
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| Brave are the men and steady | A |
| Who guide her over the deep | N |
| British mariners ready | A |
| To face the sea wolf's leap | N |
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| Lord of the winds and waters | O |
| Bring our ship to her mark | P |
| Safe from this game of hide and seek | Q |
| With murderers in the dark | P |
Henry Van Dyke
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