Song Of The Red War-boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEG HIJIKLKL MNMNEOEP EQEQERER ESESCDCD ETET CUCUCVCV CWCWCXCX EQEQ| Shove off from the wharf edge Steady | A |
| Watch for a smooth Give way | B |
| If she feels the lop already | A |
| She'll stand on her head in the bay | B |
| It's ebb it's dusk it's blowing | C |
| The shoals are a mile of white | D |
| But snatch her along we're going | C |
| To find our master to night | D |
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| For we hold that in all disaster | E |
| Of shipwreck storm or sword | F |
| A Man must stand by his Master | E |
| When once he has pledged his word | G |
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| Raging seas have we rowed in | H |
| But we seldom saw them thus | I |
| Our master is angry with | J |
| Odin Odin is angry with us | I |
| Heavy odds have we taken | K |
| But never before such odds | L |
| The Gods know they are forsaken | K |
| We must risk the wrath of the Gods | L |
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| Over the crest she flies from | M |
| Into its hollow she drops | N |
| Cringes and clears her eyes from | M |
| The wind torn breaker tops | N |
| Ere out on the shrieking shoulder | E |
| Of a hill high surge she drives | O |
| Meet her Meet her and hold her | E |
| Pull for your scoundrel lives | P |
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| The thunders bellow and clamour | E |
| The harm that they meant to do | Q |
| There goes Thor's own Hammer | E |
| Cracking the dark in two | Q |
| Close But the blow has missed her | E |
| Here comes the wind of the blow | R |
| Row or the squall'll twist her | E |
| Broadside on to it Row | R |
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| Heark'ee Thor of the Thunder | E |
| We are not here for a jest | S |
| For wager warfare or p under | E |
| Or to put your power to test | S |
| This work is none of our wishing | C |
| We would house at home if we might | D |
| But our master is wrecked out fishing | C |
| We go to find him to night | D |
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| For we hold that in all disaster | E |
| As the Gods Themselves have said | T |
| A Man must stand by his Master | E |
| Till one of the two is dead | T |
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| That is our way of thinking | C |
| Now you can do as you will | U |
| While we try to save her from sinking | C |
| And hold her head to it still | U |
| Bale her and keep her moving | C |
| Or she'll break her back in the trough | V |
| Who said the weather's improving | C |
| Or the swells are taking off | V |
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| Sodden and chafed and aching | C |
| Gone in the loins and knees | W |
| No matter the day is breaking | C |
| And there's far less weight to the seas | W |
| Up mast and finish baling | C |
| In oars and out with the mead | X |
| The rest will he two reef sailing | C |
| That was a night indeed | X |
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| But we hold that in all disaster | E |
| And faith we have found it true | Q |
| If only you stand by your Master | E |
| The Gods will stand by you | Q |
Rudyard Kipling
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