O Ship Of State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACCDEEDFFGGHHIIJ BIThou too sail on O Ship of State | A |
Sail on O Union strong and great | A |
Humanity with all its fears | B |
With all the hopes of future years | B |
Is hanging breathless on thy fate | A |
We know what Master laid thy keel | C |
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel | C |
Who made each mast and sail and rope | D |
What anvils rang what hammers beat | E |
In what a forge and what a heat | E |
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope | D |
Fear not each sudden sound and shock | F |
'Tis of the wave and not the rock | F |
'Tis but the flapping of the sail | G |
And not a rent made by the gale | G |
In spite of rock and tempest's roar | H |
In spite of false lights on the shore | H |
Sail on nor fear to breast the sea | I |
Our hearts our hopes are all with thee | I |
Our hearts our hopes our prayers our tears | J |
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears | B |
Are all with thee are all with thee | I |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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