New Year's Day--and Every Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGCHIJKLMN OPQP RSETUV EWXW YZA2B2C2 ABCB| Each man is Captain of his Soul | A |
| And each man his own Crew | B |
| But the Pilot knows the Unknown Seas | C |
| And He will bring us through | B |
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| We break new seas to day | D |
| Our eager keels quest unaccustomed waters | E |
| And from the vast uncharted waste in front | F |
| The mystic circles leap | G |
| To greet our prows with mightiest possibilities | C |
| Bringing us what | H |
| Dread shoals and shifting banks | I |
| And calms and storms | J |
| And clouds and biting gales | K |
| And wreck and loss | L |
| And valiant fighting times | M |
| And maybe Death and so the Larger Life | N |
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| For should the Pilot deem it best | O |
| To cut the voyage short | P |
| He sees beyond the sky line and | Q |
| He'll bring us into Port | P |
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| And maybe Life Life on a bounding tide | R |
| And chance of glorious deeds | S |
| Of help swift born to drowning mariners | E |
| Of cheer to ships dismasted in the gale | T |
| Of succours given unasked and joyfully | U |
| Of mighty service to all needy souls | V |
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| So Ho for the Pilot's orders | E |
| Whatever course He makes | W |
| For He sees beyond the sky line | X |
| And He never makes mistakes | W |
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| And maybe Golden Days | Y |
| Full freighted with delight | Z |
| And wide free seas of unimagined bliss | A2 |
| And Treasure Isles and Kingdoms to be won | B2 |
| And Undiscovered Countries and New Kin | C2 |
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| For each man captains his own Soul | A |
| And chooses his own Crew | B |
| But the Pilot knows the Unknown Seas | C |
| And He will bring us through | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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