The Long Trail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADEFGHIH BAJAGHIH AKLKGHIH MANAGHIH OPAPGAIH AAQAGHIH ARSRGHIH TUVUGHIH AWXWADEF GHIH

There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yieldA
And the ricks stand grey to the sunB
Singing quot Over then come over for the bee has quit the doverC
quot And your English summer's done quotA
You have heard the beat of the off shore windA
And the thresh of the deep sea rainD
You have heard the song how long how longE
Pull out on the trail againF
Ha' done with the Tents of Shem dear lassG
We've seen the seasons throughH
And it's time to turn the old trail our own trail the out trailI
Pull out pull out on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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It's North you may run to the rime ringed sunB
Or South to the blind Hom's hateA
Or East all the way into Mississippi BayJ
Or West to the Golden GateA
Where the blindest bluffs hold good dear lassG
And the wildest tales are trueH
And the men bulk big on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
And life runs large on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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The days are sick and cold and the skies are grey and oldA
And the twice breathed airs blow dampK
And I'd sell my tired soul for the bucking beam sea rollL
Of a black Bilbao trampK
With her load line over her hatch dear lassG
And a drunken Dago crewH
And her nose held down on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
From Cadiz south on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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There be triple ways to take of the eagle or the snakeM
Or the way of a man with a maidA
But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the seaN
In the heel of the North East TradeA
Can you hear the crash on her brows dear lassG
And the drum of the racing screwH
As she ships it green on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
As she lifts and 'scends on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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See the shaking funnels roar with the Peter at the foreO
And the fenders grind and heaveP
And the derricks clack and grate as the tackle hooks the crateA
And the fall rope whines through the sheaveP
It's quot Gang plank up and in quot dear lassG
It's quot Hawsers warp her through quotA
And it's quot All clear aft quot on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
We're backing down on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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O the mutter overside when the port fog holds us tiedA
And the sirens hoot their dreadA
When foot by foot we creep o'er the hueless viewless deepQ
To the sob of the questing leadA
It's down by the Lower Hope dear lassG
With the Grinfleet Sands in viewH
Till the Mouse swings green on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
And the Gull Light lifts on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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O the blazing tropic night when the wake's a welt of lightA
That holds the hot sky tameR
And the steady fore foot snores through the planet powdered floorsS
Where the scared whale flukes in flameR
Her plates are flaked by the sun dear lassG
And her ropes are taut with the dewH
For we're booming down on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
We're sagging south on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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Then home get her home where the drunken rollers combT
And the shouting seas drive byU
And the engines stamp and ring and the wet bows reel and swingV
And the Southern Cross rides highU
Yes the old lost stars wheel back dear lassG
That blaze in the velvet blueH
They're all old friends on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
They're God's own guides on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH
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Fly forward O my heart from the Foreland to the StartA
We're steaming all too slowW
And it's twenty thousand mile to our little lazy isleX
Where the trumpet orchids blowW
You have heard the call of the off shore windA
And the voice of the deep sea rainD
You have heard the song how long how longE
Pull out on the trail againF
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The Lord knows what we may find dear lassG
And The Deuce knows we may doH
But we're back once more on the old trail our own trail the out trailI
We're down hull down on the Long Trail the trail that is always newH

Rudyard Kipling



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