Question

Summary on the poem The Ships Of Yule By Bliss Carman​

Answer 1

TEXT IN THE POEM:

When I was just a little boy,

Before I went to school,

I had a fleet of forty sail

I called the Ships of Yule;

Of every rig, from rakish brig

And gallant barkentine,

To little Fundy fishing boats

With gunwales painted green.

They used to go on trading trips

Around the world for me,

For though I had to stay on shore

My heart was on the sea.

They stopped at every port to call

From Babylon to Rome,

To load with all the lovely things

We never had at home;

With elephants and ivory

Bought from the King of Tyre,

And shells and silks and sandal-wood

That sailor men admire;

With figs and dates from Samarcand,

And squatty ginger-jars,

And scented silver amulets

From Indian bazaars;

With sugar-cane from Port of Spain,

And monkeys from Ceylon,

And paper lanterns from Pekin

With painted dragons on;

With cocoanuts from Zanzibar,

And pines from Singapore;

And when they had unloaded these

They could go back for more.

And even after I was big

And had to go to school,

My mind was often far away

Aboard the Ships of Yule.

Summary:

This is a beautiful poem written by Mr. Carman Bliss. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABCB.