The Wet Litany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FGHHII JJKLMN CCOPNN QQCCQQEE| When the waters' countenance | A |
| Blurs 'twixt glance and second glance | B |
| When our tattered smokes forerun | C |
| Ashen 'neath a silvered sun | C |
| When the curtain of the haze | D |
| Shuts upon our helpless ways | D |
| Hear the Channel Fleet at sea | E |
| Libera nos Domine | E |
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| When the engines' bated pulse | F |
| Scarcely thrills the nosing hulls | G |
| When the wash along the side | H |
| Sounds a sudden magnified | H |
| When the intolerable blast | I |
| Marks each blindfold minute passed | I |
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| When the fog buoy's squattering flight | J |
| Guides us 'through the haggard night | J |
| When the warning bugle blows | K |
| When the lettered doorway's close | L |
| When our brittle townships press | M |
| Impotent on emptiness | N |
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| When the unseen leadsmen lean | C |
| Questioning a deep unseen | C |
| When their lessened count they tell | O |
| To a bridge invisible | P |
| When the hid and perilous | N |
| Cliffs return our cry to us | N |
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| When the treble thickness spread | Q |
| Swallows up our next ahead | Q |
| When her sirens frightened whine | C |
| Shows her sheering out of line | C |
| When her passage undiscerned | Q |
| We must turn where she has turned | Q |
| Hear the Channel Fleet at sea | E |
| Libera nos Domine | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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