Valediction To The Ss. 'arabia,' When Returning With Her Passengers From The Delhi Durbar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IEJEKLKL MNMNOPQP AEAEBRBR| Now the busy screw is churning | A |
| Now the horrid sirens blow | B |
| Now are India's guests returning | A |
| Home from India's Greatest Show | B |
| Now the gleeful Asiatic | C |
| Speeds them on their wild career | D |
| And though normally phlegmatic | C |
| Gives a half unconscious cheer | D |
| - | |
| India's years were years of leanness | E |
| Till the Late Performance drew | F |
| These whose confidential greenness | E |
| She has run for all she knew | F |
| Gladly rose the land to bid them | G |
| Welcome for a fleeting spell | H |
| Nobly took them in and did them | G |
| And has done extremely well | H |
| - | |
| Peace be theirs important Packet | I |
| Genial skies and happy calms | E |
| No derogatory racket | J |
| No humiliating qualms | E |
| Gales I charge you shun to rouse and | K |
| Lash the seas to angry foam | L |
| While Britannia's Great Ten Thousand | K |
| Sweep with huge enjoyment home | L |
| - | |
| Let the spiced and salty zephyr | M |
| Build them up in frame and mind | N |
| Till they feel as fresh and effer | M |
| vescent as their hearts are kind | N |
| And in triumph close their Indian | O |
| Tour on far Massilia's quay | P |
| Never having known too windy an | Q |
| Offing too disturbed a sea | P |
| - | |
| So when English snows are falling | A |
| When the fogs are growing dense | E |
| They shall hear the East a calling | A |
| And shall come and blow expense | E |
| Every year shall bring his Argo | B |
| Every year a grateful East | R |
| Shall receive her golden Cargo | B |
| And restore the Gilded Fleeced | R |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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