Sailing Of The Glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBACBCAB ADAEFGBGAB ABABBHIHFJ| Merrily shouted all the sailors | A |
| As they left the town behind | B |
| Merrily shouted they and gladdened | B |
| At the slip slap of the wind | B |
| But envious were those faint home keepers | A |
| Faint land lovers as they saw | C |
| How the Glory dipped and staggered | B |
| Envying saw | C |
| Pass the ship while all her sailors | A |
| Merrily shouted | B |
| - | |
| Far and far on eastern waters | A |
| Sailed the ship and yet sailed on | D |
| While the townsmen faint land lovers | A |
| Thought How long is't now she's gone | E |
| Now maybe Bombay she touches | F |
| Now strange craft about her throng | G |
| Till she grew but half remembered | B |
| Gone so long | G |
| Quite forgot how all her sailors | A |
| Merrily shouted | B |
| - | |
| Far in unfamiliar waters | A |
| Ship and shipmen harbourage found | B |
| Where the rocks creep out like robbers | A |
| After travellers tempest bound | B |
| Then those faint land lovers murmured | B |
| Doleful thanks not dead were they | H |
| Ah yet envious though the Glory | I |
| Sunken lay | H |
| Hearing again those farewell voices | F |
| Merrily shouting | J |
John Frederick Freeman
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Sailing Of The Glory poem by John Frederick Freeman
Best Poems of John Frederick Freeman