Lukannon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIDD JJEE| I met my mates in the morning and oh but I am old | A |
| Where roaring on the ledges the summer ground swell rolled | A |
| I heard them lift the chorus that dropped the breakers' song | B |
| The beaches of Lukannon two million voices strong | B |
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| The song of pleasant stations beside the salt lagoons | C |
| The song of blowing squadrons that shuffled down the dunes | C |
| The song of midnight dances that churned the sea to flame | D |
| The beaches of Lukannon before the sealers came | D |
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| I met my mates in the morning I'll never meet them more | E |
| They came and went in legions that darkened all the shore | E |
| And through the foam flecked offing as far as voice could reach | F |
| We hailed the landing parties and we sang them up the beach | F |
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| The beaches of Lukannon the winter wheat so tall | G |
| The dripping crinkled lichens and the sea fog drenching all | G |
| The platforms of our playground all shining smooth and worn | H |
| The beaches of Lukannon the home where we were born | H |
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| I meet my mates in the morning a broken scattered band | I |
| Men shoot us in the water and club us on the land | I |
| Men drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep and tame | D |
| And still we sing Lukannon before the sealers came | D |
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| Wheel down wheel down to southward oh Gooverooska go | J |
| And tell the Deep Sea Viceroys the story of our woe | J |
| Ere empty as the shark's egg the tempest flings ashore | E |
| The beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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