Song Of The Galley Slaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBDBEBBFGGBBFHIJB B| We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails | A |
| were low | B |
| Will you never let us go | B |
| We ate bread and onions when you took towns or ran aboard | C |
| quickly when you were beaten back by the foe | B |
| The Captains walked up and down the deck in fair weather sing | D |
| ing songs but we were below | B |
| We fainted with our chins on the oars and you did not see that | E |
| we were idle for we still swung to and fro | B |
| Will you never let us go | B |
| The solt made the oar hands like shark skin our knees were | F |
| cut to the bone with salt cracks our hair was stuck to | G |
| our foreheads and our lips were cut to the gums and you | G |
| whipped us because we could not row | B |
| Will you never let us go | B |
| But in a little time we shall run out of the port holes as the water | F |
| runs along the oar blade and though you tell the others | H |
| to row after us you will never catch us till you catch the | I |
| oar thresh and tie up the winds in the belly of the sail | J |
| Aho | B |
| Will you never let us go | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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