At The Dock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHIIJJKKII LLMM IIMM| They loiter round the Dock that holds yon Ship | A |
| Shuddering at the dark pool's defiled lip | A |
| From springing bows to foam deriding stern | B |
| They have left her and await her call Return | B |
| Like any human mistress she has cast | C |
| Careless her ancient lovers till at last | C |
| Perforce she calls them and perforce they come | D |
| Like any human lovers Ah what home | E |
| Know these save in the Ship the Ship She groans | F |
| Day and night with travail of their strenuous bones | F |
| They know her for their mother sister spouse | G |
| Heart of their passion idol of their vows | H |
| They ward her and she is their sure defence | I |
| 'Gainst the sad waters' leagued malevolence | I |
| The Ship the Ship they are her slaves and she | J |
| Their Liege their Faith their Fate their History | J |
| Lo they have bought her buoyancy with their blood | K |
| And their ribs cling the keel that cleaves the flood | K |
| Their watches in the night their loneliness | I |
| Their toil hunger and thirst their heart's distress | I |
| Their hands their feet far eye and smitten head | L |
| Whereon the Sea's upgathered weight is shed | L |
| With these the Ship the Ship is laid and rigged | M |
| Launched and steered out with these her living grave is digged | M |
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| They lean close over her and long perhaps | I |
| For the broad seas and the loud wind that claps | I |
| Boisterous hands on the Ship's course and wait | M |
| Her call who calls them with the voice of Fate | M |
John Frederick Freeman
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