John Marr And Other Sailors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCBDBDEE CCCCCFFGGF HIJJHEEKKLMLMBB NONOPNNQCBCB RSTSBEBEHHI| Since as in night's deck watch ye show | A |
| Why lads so silent here to me | B |
| Your watchmate of times long ago | A |
| Once for all the darkling sea | B |
| You your voices raised how clearly | B |
| Striking in when tempest sung | C |
| Hoisting up the storm sail cheerly | B |
| Life is storm let storm you rung | C |
| Taking things as fated merely | B |
| Childlike though the world ye spanned | D |
| Nor holding unto life too dearly | B |
| Ye who held your lives in hand | D |
| Skimmers who on oceans four | E |
| Petrels were and larks ashore | E |
| - | |
| O not from memory lightly flung | C |
| Forgot like strains no more availing | C |
| The heart to music haughtier strung | C |
| Nay frequent near me never staleing | C |
| Whose good feeling kept ye young | C |
| Like tides that enter creek or stream | F |
| Ye come ye visit me or seem | F |
| Swimming out from seas of faces | G |
| Alien myriads memory traces | G |
| To enfold me in a dream | F |
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| I yearn as ye But rafts that strain | H |
| Parted shall they lock again | I |
| Twined we were entwined then riven | J |
| Ever to new embracements driven | J |
| Shifting gulf weed of the main | H |
| And how if one here shift no more | E |
| Lodged by the flinging surge ashore | E |
| Nor less as now in eve's decline | K |
| Your shadowy fellowship is mine | K |
| Ye float around me form and feature | L |
| Tattooings ear rings love locks curled | M |
| Barbarians of man's simpler nature | L |
| Unworldly servers of the world | M |
| Yea present all and dear to me | B |
| Though shades or scouring China's sea | B |
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| Whither whither merchant sailors | N |
| Whitherward now in roaring gales | O |
| Competing still ye huntsman whalers | N |
| In leviathan's wake what boat prevails | O |
| And man of war's men whereaway | P |
| If now no dinned drum beat to quarters | N |
| On the wilds of midnight waters | N |
| Foemen looming through the spray | Q |
| Do yet your gangway lanterns streaming | C |
| Vainly strive to pierce below | B |
| When tilted from the slant plank gleaming | C |
| A brother you see to darkness go | B |
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| But gunmates lashed in shotted canvas | R |
| If where long watch below ye keep | S |
| Never the shrill All hands up hammocks | T |
| Breaks the spell that charms your sleep | S |
| And summoning trumps might vainly call | B |
| And booming guns implore | E |
| A beat a heart beat musters all | B |
| One heart beat at heart core | E |
| It musters But to clasp retain | H |
| To see you at the halyards main | H |
| To hear your chorus once again | I |
Herman Melville
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