To Ulysses* Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB A DEED A FGGF H IJJI H KHHK H JLLJ H MEEN H OPPO J QJJQ J RJJR J STTS J DUUD| I | A |
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| Ulysses much experienced man | B |
| Whose eyes have known this globe of ours | C |
| Her tribes of men and trees and flowers | C |
| From Corrientes to Japan | B |
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| II | A |
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| To you that bask below the Line | D |
| I soaking here in winter wet | E |
| The century's three strong eights have met | E |
| To drag me down to seventy nine | D |
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| III | A |
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| In summer if I reach my day | F |
| To you yet young who breathe the balm | G |
| Of summer winters by the palm | G |
| And orange grove of Paraguay | F |
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| IV | H |
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| I tolerant of the colder time | I |
| Who love the winter woods to trace | J |
| On paler heavens the branching grace | J |
| Of leafless elm or naked lime | I |
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| V | H |
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| And see my cedar green and there | K |
| My giant ilex keeping leaf | H |
| When frost is keen and days are brief | H |
| Or marvel how in English air | K |
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| VI | H |
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| My yucca which no winter quells | J |
| Altho' the months have scarce begun | L |
| Has push'd toward our faintest sun | L |
| A spike of half accomplish'd bells | J |
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| VII | H |
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| Or watch the waving pine which here | M |
| The warrior of Caprera set | E |
| A name that earth will not forget | E |
| Till earth has roll'd her latest year | N |
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| VIII | H |
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| I once half crazed for larger light | O |
| On broader zones beyond the foam | P |
| But chaining fancy now at home | P |
| Among the quarried downs of Wight | O |
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| IX | J |
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| Not less would yield full thanks to you | Q |
| For your rich gift your tale of lands | J |
| I know not your Arabian sands | J |
| Your cane your palm tree fern bamboo | Q |
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| X | J |
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| The wealth of tropic bower and brake | R |
| Your Oriental Eden isles | J |
| Where man nor only Nature smiles | J |
| Your wonder of the boiling lake | R |
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| XI | J |
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| Phra Chai the Shadow of the Best | S |
| Phra bat the step your Pontic coast | T |
| Crag cloister Anatolian Ghost | T |
| Hong Kong Karnac and all the rest | S |
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| XII | J |
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| Thro' which I follow'd line by line | D |
| Your leading hand and came my friend | U |
| To prize your various book and send | U |
| A gift of slenderer value mine | D |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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