In Cabin'd Ships At Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LAJGMNOPAQRQ ASTUVWXYZAA2B2| IN cabin'd ships at sea | A |
| The boundless blue on every side expanding | B |
| With whistling winds and music of the waves the large imperious | C |
| waves In such | D |
| Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine | E |
| Where joyous full of faith spreading white sails | F |
| She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day or under | G |
| many a star at night | H |
| By sailors young and old haply will I a reminiscence of the land | I |
| be read | J |
| In full rapport at last | K |
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| Here are our thoughts voyagers' thoughts | L |
| Here not the land firm land alone appears may then by them be | A |
| said | J |
| The sky o'erarches here we feel the undulating deck beneath our | G |
| feet | M |
| We feel the long pulsation ebb and flow of endless motion | N |
| The tones of unseen mystery the vague and vast suggestions of the | O |
| briny world the liquid flowing syllables | P |
| The perfume the faint creaking of the cordage the melancholy | A |
| rhythm | Q |
| The boundless vista and the horizon far and dim are all here | R |
| And this is Ocean's poem | Q |
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| Then falter not O book fulfil your destiny | A |
| You not a reminiscence of the land alone | S |
| You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether purpos'd I know | T |
| not whither yet ever full of faith | U |
| Consort to every ship that sails sail you | V |
| Bear forth to them folded my love Dear mariners for you I fold | W |
| it here in every leaf | X |
| Speed on my Book spread your white sails my little bark athwart | Y |
| the imperious waves | Z |
| Chant on sail on bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every | A |
| shore | A2 |
| This song for mariners and all their ships | B2 |
Walt Whitman
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