The Coastwise Lights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HIJJ KKLM NNOO| Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees | A |
| Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging smoking seas | A |
| From reef and rock and skerry over headland ness and voe | B |
| The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships of England go | C |
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| Through the endless summer evenings on the lineless level floors | D |
| Through the yelling Channel tempest when the siren hoots and roars | D |
| By day the dipping house flag and by night the rocket's trail | E |
| As the sheep that graze behind us so we know them where they hail | E |
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| We bridge across the dark and bid the helmsman have a care | F |
| The flash that wheeling inland wakes his sleeping wife to prayer | F |
| From our vexed eyries head to gale we bind in burning chains | G |
| The lover from the sea rim drawn his love in English lanes | G |
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| We greet the clippers wing and wing that race the Southern wool | H |
| We warn the crawling cargo tanks of Bremen Leith and Hull | I |
| To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea | J |
| The white wall sided war ships or the whalers of Dundee | J |
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| Come up come in from Eastward from the guardports of the Morn | K |
| Beat up beat in from Southerly O gipsies of the Horn | K |
| Swift shuttles of an Empire's loom that weave us main to main | L |
| The Coastwise Lights of England give you welcome back again | M |
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| Go get you gone up Channel with the sea crust on your plates | N |
| Go get you into London with the burden of your freights | N |
| Haste for they talk of Empire there and say if any seek | O |
| The Lights of England sent you and by silence shall ye speak | O |
Rudyard Kipling
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