St. Lawrence And The Coming Ships Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDHD IJIJKDKD LMLMNDND| I cannot loiter on my way | A |
| The ice is drifting through Belle Isle | B |
| And far to seaward by Cape Ray | A |
| Broad leagues of open water smile | B |
| Unheeded now the inland barge | C |
| Creeps heavily the fisher dips | D |
| His meshes in my brimming marge | C |
| I go to meet the coming ships | D |
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| They steam from Thames by Dover Strait | E |
| They cleave the Bristol Channel's tide | F |
| They pass the Mersey's thronging gate | E |
| And issue from the crowded Clyde | F |
| Out past the homing craft they sheer | G |
| The Irish coastline by them slips | D |
| Ere many days they will be here | H |
| I go to meet the coming ships | D |
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| Full fraught with wealth of merchandise | I |
| They plough the main with furrows deep | J |
| Upon the waves they sink and rise | I |
| But onward onward ever keep | J |
| And some a viewless message send | K |
| Whose airy flight their speed outstrips | D |
| And all their yearnings hither tend | K |
| I go to meet the coming ships | D |
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| I tarry not by fortress old | L |
| Nor pause by any pleasant shore | M |
| But hasten eager to behold | L |
| Those brave leviathans once more | M |
| To welcome them with parted banks | N |
| And kiss their prows with loving lips | D |
| And soothingly caress their flanks | N |
| I go to meet the coming ships | D |
W. M. Mackeracher
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