Mayflower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFAA GGBBBBFFFFFFBABA| THUNDER our thanks to her guns hearts and lips | A |
| Cheer from the ranks to her | B |
| Shout from the banks to her | B |
| Mayflower Foremost and best of our ships | A |
| Mayflower Twice in the national story | C |
| Thy dear name in letters of gold | D |
| Woven in texture that never grows old | D |
| Winning a home and winning glory | C |
| Sailing the years to us welcomed for aye | E |
| Cherished for centuries dearest to day | F |
| Every heart throbs for her every flag dips | A |
| Mayflower First and last best of our ships | A |
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| White as a seagull she swept the long passage | G |
| True as the homing bird flies with its message | G |
| Love her O richer than silk every sail of her | B |
| Trust her More precious than gold every nail of her | B |
| Write we down faithfully every man's part in her | B |
| Greet we all gratefully every true heart in her | B |
| More than a name to us sailing the fleetest | F |
| Symbol of that which is purest and sweetest | F |
| More than a keel to us steering the straightest | F |
| Emblem of that which is freest and greatest | F |
| More than a dove bosomed sail to the windward | F |
| Flame passing on while the night clouds fly hindward | F |
| Kiss every plank of her None shall take rank of her | B |
| Frontward or weatherward none can eclipse | A |
| Thunder our thanks to her Cheer from the banks to her | B |
| Mayflower Foremost and best of our ships | A |
John Boyle O'reilly
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