The Song Of The Derelict Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCCB DBDBEEEB FBFBGGGB| Ye have sung me your songs ye have chanted your rimes | A |
| I scorn your beguiling O sea | B |
| Ye fondle me now but to strike me betimes | B |
| A treacherous lover the sea | B |
| Once I saw as I lay half awash in the night | C |
| A hull in the gloom a quick hail and a light | C |
| And I lurched o'er to leeward and saved her for spite | C |
| From the doom that ye meted to me | B |
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| I was sister to 'Terrible' seventy four | D |
| Yo ho for the swing of the sea | B |
| And ye sank her in fathoms a thousand or more | D |
| Alas for the might of the sea | B |
| Ye taunt me and sing me her fate for a sign | E |
| What harm can ye wreak more on me or on mine | E |
| Ho braggart I care not for boasting of thine | E |
| A fig for the wrath of the sea | B |
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| Some night to the lee of the land I shall steal | F |
| Heigh ho to be home from the sea | B |
| No pilot but Death at the rudderless wheel | F |
| None knoweth the harbor as he | B |
| To lie where the slow tide creeps hither and fro | G |
| And the shifting sand laps me around for I know | G |
| That my gallant old crew are in Port long ago | G |
| For ever at peace with the sea | B |
John Mccrae
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