Pieter Marinus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECCF GCHI CJKL CMCNC M| LORD I have known all fruits of this thy world | A |
| Like Solomon king I have been fain of all | B |
| War women and wine but mine was spirit of Nantes | C |
| And now O Lord I'm old and fain for Thee | D |
| But Lord my soul's so grimed and weather worn | E |
| So warped and wrung with all iniquities | C |
| Piracies brawls and cheated revenues | C |
| There's not a saint but would look twice at it | F |
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| So when my time comes send no angels down | G |
| With lutes and harps and foreign instruments | C |
| To pipe old Pieter's spirit up to heaven | H |
| Past his tall namesake sturdy at his post | I |
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| But let me lie awhile in these Thy seas | C |
| Let the soft Gulf Stream and the long South Drift | J |
| And the swift tides that rim the Labrador | K |
| Beat on my soul and wash it clean again | L |
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| And when Thy waves have smoothed me of my sins | C |
| White as the sea mew or the wind spun foam | M |
| Clean as the clear cut images of stars | C |
| That swing between the swells then then O Lord | N |
| Lean out lean out from heaven and call me thus | C |
| 'Come up thou soul of Pieter Marinus ' | - |
| And I'll go home | M |
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
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