The Ship Of State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK| A SENTIMENT | A |
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| This 'sentiment' was read on the same occasion as the 'Family Record ' | - |
| which immediately follows it The latter poem is the dutiful tribute of a son to his father and his father's ancestors residents of Woodstock from its first settlement | A |
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| THE Ship of State above her skies are blue | B |
| But still she rocks a little it is true | B |
| And there are passengers whose faces white | C |
| Show they don't feel as happy as they might | C |
| Yet on the whole her crew are quite content | D |
| Since its wild fury the typhoon has spent | D |
| And willing if her pilot thinks it best | E |
| To head a little nearer south by west | E |
| And this they feel the ship came too near wreck | F |
| In the long quarrel for the quarter deck | F |
| Now when she glides serenely on her way | G |
| The shallows past where dread explosives lay | G |
| The stiff obstructive's churlish game to try | H |
| Let sleeping dogs and still torpedoes lie | H |
| And so I give you all the Ship of State | I |
| Freedom's last venture is her priceless freight | I |
| God speed her keep her bless her while she steers | J |
| Amid the breakers of unsounded years | J |
| Lead her through danger's paths with even keel | K |
| And guide the honest hand that holds her wheel | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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