Merchandise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCCC DCEE CCFF GGHH CCII JJHH CCGG KLMM NNCC OOPP CCHH HHQRCQ| Eisie April | A |
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| Dedicated by gracious permission to H R H THE PRINCE OF WALES | B |
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| Merchandise Merchandise Tortoiseshell spices | C |
| Carpets and Indigo sent o'er the highseas | C |
| Mothero'Pearl from the Solomon Isles | C |
| Brought by a brigantine ten thousand miles | C |
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| Rubber from Zanzibar tea from NangPo | D |
| Copra from Haiti and wine from Bordeaux | C |
| Ships with topgallants and royals unfurled | E |
| Are bringing in freights from the ends of the world | E |
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| Crazy old windjammers manned by Malays | C |
| With ratridden bulkheads and creaking old stays | C |
| Reeking of bilge and of paint and of pitch | F |
| That's how these oceangirt islands grew rich | F |
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| And tramps heavy laden and liners untold | G |
| Will lease a new life to a nation grown old | G |
| Merchandise Merchandise England was made | H |
| By her Men and her Ships and her OVERSEAS TRADE | H |
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| Widen your harbours your docks and your quays | C |
| Hazard your wares on the seven wide seas | C |
| Run out your railways and hew out your coal | I |
| For only by trade can a country keep whole | I |
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| Feed up your furnaces fashion your steel | J |
| Stick to your bargains and pay on the deal | J |
| Rich is your birthright and well you'll be paid | H |
| If you keep in good faith with your Overseas Trade | H |
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| Learn up geography work out your sums | C |
| Build up your commerce and pull down your slums | C |
| Sail on a Plimsoll that marks a full hold | G |
| Your Overseas Trade means a harvest of gold | G |
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| Bring in the palmoil and pepper you've bought | K |
| But send out ten times the amount you import | L |
| Trade your inventions your labour and sweat | M |
| Your Overseas Traffic will keep ye from debt | M |
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| Hark to the song of the shuttle and loom | N |
| Keep up your commerce or crawl to your tomb | N |
| Study new methods and open new lines | C |
| Quicken your factories foundries and mines | C |
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| Think of what Drake did and Raleigh and Howe | O |
| And waste not their labours by slacking it now | O |
| Work is life's currency earn what you're worth | P |
| And send out your ships to the ends of the earth | P |
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| Deepbosomed mothers with widefashioned hips | C |
| Will bear ye good sons for the building of ships | C |
| Good sons for your ships and good ships for your trade | H |
| That's how the Peace of the World will be made | H |
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| So send out your strong to the forests untrod | H |
| Work for yourselves and your neighbours and | H |
| Keep this good England the home of the free | Q |
| With Merchandise Men and good Ships on the | R |
| Merchandise Merchandise Good honest Merchandise | C |
| Merchandise Men and Good Ships on the Sea | Q |
John Milton Hayes
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