By The Quay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACCDCEEFEGGHGIIJI JJKJLLMLNNONEENEPPHP| I KNEW a ship in the magical time | A |
| Of painted toy and nursery rhyme | A |
| That quested the world with sails unfurled | B |
| And fluttered her flag in every clime | A |
| Now once a year when she came to port | C |
| We quitted our lessons forgot our sport | C |
| Deserted schools with their tiresome rules | D |
| And rushed to her side to pay her court | C |
| We turned from the town with its ceaseless noise | E |
| Its staring windows and gilded toys | E |
| For she was a queen in her gold and green | F |
| And we were a group of Quayside boys | E |
| We climbed her yards at the risk of our necks | G |
| Or grouped wide eyed on her snowy decks | G |
| While her sailors told what time they rolled | H |
| The quid in their cheeks of reefs and wrecks | G |
| Great talk they made of the China Seas | I |
| The cocoa nut isles and the scented breeze | I |
| That came at night in the white moonlight | J |
| From cinnamon groves and camphor trees | I |
| They yarned of dolphins and mermaids white | J |
| And Father Neptune abroad at night | J |
| Or short and tall yet merry men all | K |
| They danced a jig in the sunset light | J |
| But best of all when the night came down | L |
| Were the songs they chorused of London Town | L |
| Now loud now low with a Yo heave O | M |
| And brave blue eyes under brows of brown | L |
| Now kissing the foam when the good ship sped | N |
| And poised at her fore with lips of red | N |
| And a robe of blue was what think you | O |
| Why only a wooden figure head | N |
| Just that no more but its buoyant poise | E |
| Was such that it seemed a joy of joys | E |
| And its gold tressed head and its lips of red | N |
| Were loved I think by the Quayside Boys | E |
| O the vanished things are the things that most | P |
| We grieve about and that Quayside host | P |
| Would they sigh if told that their ship of old | H |
| Is a hulk for coals on the Spanish Coast | P |
Roderic Quinn
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