Thorkild-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABB CBCB DD EE BB FF BB GG EE ABAB| There's no wind along these seas | A |
| Out oars for Stavanger | B |
| Forward all for Stavanger | B |
| So we must wake the white ash breeze | A |
| Let fall for Stavanger | B |
| A long pull for Stavanger | B |
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| Oh hear the benches creak and strain | C |
| A long pull for Stavanger | B |
| She thinks she smells the Northland rain | C |
| A long pull for Stavanger | B |
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| She thinks she smells the Northland snow | D |
| And she's as glad as we to go | D |
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| She thinks she smells the Northland rime | E |
| And the dear dark nights of winter time | E |
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| She wants to be at her own home pier | B |
| To shift her sails and standing gear | B |
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| She wants to be in her winter shed | F |
| To strip herself and go to bed | F |
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| Her very bolts are sick for shore | B |
| And we we want it ten times more | B |
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| So all you Gods that love brave men | G |
| Send us a three reef gale again | G |
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| Send us a gale and watch us come | E |
| With closecropped canvas slashing home | E |
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| But there s no wind on all these seas | A |
| A long pull for Stavanger | B |
| So we must wake the white ash breeze | A |
| A long pull for Stavanger | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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