A Valediction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII| We're bound for blue water where the great winds blow | A |
| It's time to get the tacks aboard time for us to go | A |
| The crowd's at the capstan and the tune's in the shout | B |
| A long pull a strong pull and warp the hooker out | B |
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| The bow wash is eddying spreading from the bows | C |
| Aloft and loose the topsails and some one give a rouse | D |
| A salt Atlantic chanty shall be music to the dead | E |
| A long pull a strong pull and the yard to the masthead | E |
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| Shrilly squeal the running sheaves the weather gear strains | F |
| Such a clatter of chain sheets the devil's in the chains | F |
| Over us the bright stars under us the drowned | G |
| A long pull a strong pull and we're outward bound | G |
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| Yonder round and ruddy is the mellow old moon | H |
| The red funnelled tug has gone and now sonny soon | H |
| We'll be clear of the Channel so watch how you steer | I |
| Ease her when she pitches and so long my dear | I |
John Masefield
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