Thorkild-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABB CBCB DD EE BB FF BB GG EE ABABThere'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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