The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFAG HIJK LJMN BOPQCRSSSBQC A| Moored to the same ring | A |
| The hour the darkness and I | B |
| Our compasses hooded like falcons | C |
| - | |
| Now the memory of you comes aching in | D |
| With a wash of broken bits which never left port | E |
| In which once we planned voyages | F |
| They come knocking like hearts asking | A |
| What departures on this tide | G |
| - | |
| Breath of land warm breath | H |
| You tighten the cold around the navel | I |
| Though all shores but the first have been foreign | J |
| And the first was not home until left behind | K |
| - | |
| Our choice is ours but we have not made it | L |
| Containing as it does our destination | J |
| Circled with loss as with coral and | M |
| A destination only until attained | N |
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| I have left you my hope to remember me by | B |
| Though now there is little resemblance | O |
| At this moment I could believe in no change | P |
| The mast perpetually | Q |
| Vacillating between the same constellations | C |
| The night never withdrawing its dark virtue | R |
| From the harbor shaped as a heart | S |
| The sea pulsing as a heart | S |
| The sky vaulted as a heart | S |
| Where I know the light will shatter like a cry | B |
| Above a discovery | Q |
| 'Emptiness | C |
| Emptiness Look ' | - |
| Look This is the morning | A |
William Stanley Merwin
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