A Pier-head Chorus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDE FFFE| Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread | A |
| And dancing with the stars to watch upon the fo'c's'le head | A |
| Hearkening to the bow wash and the welter of the tread | A |
| Of a thousand tons of clipper running free | B |
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| For the tug has got the tow rope and will take us to the Downs | C |
| Her paddles churn the river wrack to muddy greens and browns | C |
| And I have given river wrack and all the filth of towns | C |
| For the rolling combing cresters of the sea | B |
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| We'll sheet the mizzen royals home and shimmer down the Bay | D |
| The sea line blue with billows the land line blurred and grey | D |
| The bow wash will be piling high and thrashing into spray | D |
| As the hooker's fore foot tramples down the swell | E |
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| She'll log a giddy seventeen and rattle out the reel | F |
| The weight of all the run out line will be a thing to feel | F |
| As the bacca quidding shell back shambles aft to take the wheel | F |
| And the sea sick little middy strikes the bell | E |
John Masefield
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