Silver sailing soldiers by mikepyro

http://www.abctales.com/story/mikepyro/silver-sailing-soldiers

i really like the rythmn you create in the first stanza, like marching. You maintain it in the 2nd but the third loses it before returning in the 4th. I assuming the rythmn changed was intentional in the 3rd but i stumble over it. Not being a poet i don't know how to advise - but i am sure other good poets on here will.

there are some lovely lines in this.

Soap scum sentinels,
scrubbing shining hulls

Juliet