The Islet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBCDEDEFFAAFEGHHF GEB AIFF AJJFF| 'Whither O whither love shall we go | A |
| For a score of sweet little summers or so ' | B |
| The sweet little wife of the singer said | C |
| On the day that follow'd the day she was wed | C |
| 'Whither O whither love shall we go ' | B |
| And the singer shaking his curly head | C |
| Turn'd as he sat and struck the keys | D |
| There at his right with a sudden crash | E |
| Singing 'And shall it be over the seas | D |
| With a crew that is neither rude nor rash | E |
| But a bevy of Eroses apple cheek'd | F |
| In a shallop of crystal ivory beak'd | F |
| With a satin sail of a ruby glow | A |
| To a sweet little Eden on earth that I know | A |
| A mountain islet pointed and peak'd | F |
| Waves on a diamond shingle dash | E |
| Cataract brooks to the ocean run | G |
| Fairily delicate palaces shine | H |
| Mixt with myrtle and clad with vine | H |
| And overstream'd and silvery streak'd | F |
| With many a rivulet high against the sun | G |
| The facets of the glorious mountain flash | E |
| Above the valleys of palm and pine ' | B |
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| 'Thither O thither love let us go ' | - |
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| 'No no no | A |
| For in all that exquisite isle my dear | I |
| There is but one bird with a musical throat | F |
| And his compass is but of a single note | F |
| That it makes one weary to hear ' | - |
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| 'Mock me not mock me not love let us go ' | - |
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| 'No love no | A |
| For the bud ever breaks into bloom on the tree | J |
| And a storm never wakes on the lonely sea | J |
| And a worm is there in the lonely wood | F |
| That pierces the liver and blackens the blood | F |
| And makes it a sorrow to be ' | - |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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