A Friend's Wish. To C. W. S
Give me your last Aloha,When I go out of sight,Over the dark rim of the seaInto the Polar night!
And all the Northland give youSkoal for the voyage begun,When your bright summer sail goes downInto the zones of sun!
About this text
A Friend's Wish. To C. W. S is in the public domain. This text is taken from More Songs From Vagabondia, Project Gutenberg ebook #18007; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Bliss Carman, A Friend's Wish. To C. W. S, in More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #18007, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/carman-vagabondia/a-friend-s-wish-to-c-w-s.html, id L24724.
Form and metre
A Friend's Wish. To C. W. S is 8 lines in 2 stanzas of 4 lines each. The metre is common measure, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 86%).
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Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A-A aloha · sightA · sea · nightA
- 2 -A-A you · begunA · down · sunA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against common measure. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Give me your last Aloha, | 7 | ····˘/˘ |
| When I go out of sight, | 6 | ······ |
| Over the dark rim of the sea | 8 | ········ |
| Into the Polar night! | 6 | ···/˘· |
| And all the Northland give you | 7 | ···/··· |
| Skoal for the voyage begun, | 7 | ···/˘/˘ |
| When your bright summer sail goes down | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Into the zones of sun! | 6 | ······ |
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