The Fishermen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDEDFGHGEIJIKLBL MNHNHOCOCBHBPBBBMQHQ CBFBRBMBSTUVCWXWYYZY YA2B2A2C2GYGCD2CD2B2 WHWHDYD

HURRAH the seaward breezesA
Sweep down the bay amainB
Heave up my lads the anchorC
Run up the sail againB
Leave to the lubber landsmenB
The rail car and the steedD
The stars of heaven shall guide usE
The breath of heaven shall speedD
From the hill top looks the steepleF
And the lighthouse from the sandG
And the scattered pines are wavingH
Their farewell from the landG
One glance my lads behind usE
For the homes we leave one sighI
Ere we take the change and chancesJ
Of the ocean and the skyI
Now brothers for the icebergsK
Of frozen LabradorL
Floating spectral in the moonshineB
Along the low black shoreL
Where like snow the gannet's feathersM
On Brador's rocks are shedN
And the noisy murr are flyingH
Like black scuds overheadN
Where in mist the rock is hidingH
And the sharp reef lurks belowO
And the white squall smites in summerC
And the autumn tempests blowO
Where through gray and rolling vaporC
From evening unto mornB
A thousand boats are hailingH
Horn answering unto hornB
Hurrah for the Red IslandP
With the white cross on its crownB
Hurrah for MeccatinaB
And its mountains bare and brownB
Where the Caribou's tall antlersM
O'er the dwarf wood freely tossQ
And the footstep of the MickmackH
Has no sound upon the mossQ
There we'll drop our lines and gatherC
Old Ocean's treasures inB
Where'er the mottled mackerelF
Turns up a steel dark finB
The sea's our field of harvestR
Its scaly tribes our grainB
We'll reap the teeming watersM
As at home they reap the plainB
Our wet hands spread the carpetS
And light the hearth of homeT
From our fish as in the old timeU
The silver coin shall comeV
As the demon fled the chamberC
Where the fish of Tobit layW
So ours from all our dwellingsX
Shall frighten Want awayW
Though the mist upon our jacketsY
In the bitter air congealsY
And our lines wind stiff and slowlyZ
From off the frozen reelsY
Though the fog be dark around usY
And the storm blow high and loudA2
We will whistle down the wild windB2
And laugh beneath the cloudA2
In the darkness as in daylightC2
On the water as on landG
God's eye is looking on usY
And beneath us is His handG
Death will find us soon or laterC
On the deck or in the cotD2
And we cannot meet him betterC
Than in working out our lotD2
Hurrah hurrah the west windB2
Comes freshening down the bayW
The rising sails are fillingH
Give way my lads give wayW
Leave the coward landsman clingingH
To the dull earth like a weedD
The stars of heaven shall guide usY
The breath of heaven shall speedD

John Greenleaf Whittier



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