Les Alizes.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Poem Hunter/ John Masefield/poems/Biography.
The Trade Winds blow near the equator and in the Tropics; they are easterly winds, which blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern hemisphere. Masefield would have felt the Trade Winds often during his sea voyages.
Each quatrain has the end refrain 'Of the steady Trade Winds blowing'-very effective and well-crafted. The Trade Winds blow in the harbour, in the Spanish Seas, all day and all night, ' a cool and pleasant breeze'.
He thinks of the red wine of Spain, the ale, the fiddle and dancers and the murmur of the sails as the Trade Winds blow.
He hears fire-flies the swish of palm trees and a calm voice calling him, the low croon 'Of the steady Trade Winds blowing'.
Obviously, a memorable poem from the meaning alone. But the quatrains all rhyme in the: aaab pattern. So precise.