The Fishermen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEDFGHGEIJIKLBL MNHNHOCOCBHBPBBBMQHQ CBFBRBMBSTUVCWXWYYZY YA2B2A2C2GYGCD2CD2B2 WHWHDYDHURRAH the seaward breezes | A |
Sweep down the bay amain | B |
Heave up my lads the anchor | C |
Run up the sail again | B |
Leave to the lubber landsmen | B |
The rail car and the steed | D |
The stars of heaven shall guide us | E |
The breath of heaven shall speed | D |
From the hill top looks the steeple | F |
And the lighthouse from the sand | G |
And the scattered pines are waving | H |
Their farewell from the land | G |
One glance my lads behind us | E |
For the homes we leave one sigh | I |
Ere we take the change and chances | J |
Of the ocean and the sky | I |
Now brothers for the icebergs | K |
Of frozen Labrador | L |
Floating spectral in the moonshine | B |
Along the low black shore | L |
Where like snow the gannet's feathers | M |
On Brador's rocks are shed | N |
And the noisy murr are flying | H |
Like black scuds overhead | N |
Where in mist the rock is hiding | H |
And the sharp reef lurks below | O |
And the white squall smites in summer | C |
And the autumn tempests blow | O |
Where through gray and rolling vapor | C |
From evening unto morn | B |
A thousand boats are hailing | H |
Horn answering unto horn | B |
Hurrah for the Red Island | P |
With the white cross on its crown | B |
Hurrah for Meccatina | B |
And its mountains bare and brown | B |
Where the Caribou's tall antlers | M |
O'er the dwarf wood freely toss | Q |
And the footstep of the Mickmack | H |
Has no sound upon the moss | Q |
There we'll drop our lines and gather | C |
Old Ocean's treasures in | B |
Where'er the mottled mackerel | F |
Turns up a steel dark fin | B |
The sea's our field of harvest | R |
Its scaly tribes our grain | B |
We'll reap the teeming waters | M |
As at home they reap the plain | B |
Our wet hands spread the carpet | S |
And light the hearth of home | T |
From our fish as in the old time | U |
The silver coin shall come | V |
As the demon fled the chamber | C |
Where the fish of Tobit lay | W |
So ours from all our dwellings | X |
Shall frighten Want away | W |
Though the mist upon our jackets | Y |
In the bitter air congeals | Y |
And our lines wind stiff and slowly | Z |
From off the frozen reels | Y |
Though the fog be dark around us | Y |
And the storm blow high and loud | A2 |
We will whistle down the wild wind | B2 |
And laugh beneath the cloud | A2 |
In the darkness as in daylight | C2 |
On the water as on land | G |
God's eye is looking on us | Y |
And beneath us is His hand | G |
Death will find us soon or later | C |
On the deck or in the cot | D2 |
And we cannot meet him better | C |
Than in working out our lot | D2 |
Hurrah hurrah the west wind | B2 |
Comes freshening down the bay | W |
The rising sails are filling | H |
Give way my lads give way | W |
Leave the coward landsman clinging | H |
To the dull earth like a weed | D |
The stars of heaven shall guide us | Y |
The breath of heaven shall speed | D |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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