Messmates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE DFDFCCDE GHGHCCDE| He gave us all a good bye cheerily | A |
| At the first dawn of day | B |
| We dropped him down the side full drearily | A |
| When the light died away | B |
| It's a dead dark watch that he's a keeping there | C |
| And a long long night that lags a creeping there | C |
| Where the Trades and the tides roll over him | D |
| And the great ships go by | E |
| - | |
| He's there alone with green seas rocking him | D |
| For a thousand miles round | F |
| He's there alone with dumb things mocking him | D |
| And we're homeward bound | F |
| It's a long lone watch that he's a keeping there | C |
| And a dead cold night that lags a creeping there | C |
| While the months and the years roll over him | D |
| And the great ships go by | E |
| - | |
| I wonder if the tramps come near enough | G |
| As they thrash to and fro | H |
| And the battle ships' bells ring clear enough | G |
| To be heard down below | H |
| If through all the lone watch that he's a keeping there | C |
| And the long cold night that lags a creeping there | C |
| The voices of the sailor men shall comfort him | D |
| When the great ships go by | E |
Sir Henry Newbolt
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