Stowaway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDD EFEFGHGH IJKJLJLJ MHMHNMNO PFPFNQNB| We'd left the sea gulls long behind | A |
| And we were almost in mid ocean | B |
| The sky was soft and blue and kind | A |
| The boat had scarcely any motion | B |
| Except that songfully it sped | C |
| And sheared the foam swift as an arrow | D |
| There fluttered down a city sparrow | D |
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| I stared with something of surprise | E |
| The apparition mocked my seeming | F |
| In fact I gently rubbed my eyes | E |
| And wondered if I were not dreaming | F |
| It must I mused at Montreal | G |
| Have hopped abroad somewhere to nestle | H |
| And failed to hear the warning call | G |
| For visitors to leave he vessel | H |
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| Well anyway a bird it was | I |
| With winky eyes and wings a twitter | J |
| Unwise to migration Laws | K |
| From Canada a hardy flitter | J |
| And as it hopped about the deck | L |
| So happily I wondered whether | J |
| It wasn't scramming from Quebec | L |
| For London's mild and moister weather | J |
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| My rover's heart went out to it | M |
| That vain vivacious little devil | H |
| And as I watched it hop and flit | M |
| I hoped it would not come to evil | H |
| It planned above the plangent sea | N |
| A foolish flight I'd never risk it | M |
| And then it circled back to me | N |
| And from my palm picked crumbs of biscuit | O |
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| Well voyages come to an end | P |
| WE make them with that understanding | F |
| One morn I missed my feathered friend | P |
| And hope it made a happy landing | F |
| Oh may she ever happy be | N |
| It 'twas a she with eggs to sit on | Q |
| And rest on our side of he sea | N |
| A brave brown cheery chirping Briton | B |
Robert William Service
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