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

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Ulysses much experienced manB
Whose eyes have known this globe of oursC
Her tribes of men and trees and flowersC
From Corrientes to JapanB
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IIA
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To you that bask below the LineD
I soaking here in winter wetE
The century's three strong eights have metE
To drag me down to seventy nineD
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IIIA
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In summer if I reach my dayF
To you yet young who breathe the balmG
Of summer winters by the palmG
And orange grove of ParaguayF
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IVH
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I tolerant of the colder timeI
Who love the winter woods to traceJ
On paler heavens the branching graceJ
Of leafless elm or naked limeI
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VH
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And see my cedar green and thereK
My giant ilex keeping leafH
When frost is keen and days are briefH
Or marvel how in English airK
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VIH
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My yucca which no winter quellsJ
Altho' the months have scarce begunL
Has push'd toward our faintest sunL
A spike of half accomplish'd bellsJ
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VIIH
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Or watch the waving pine which hereM
The warrior of Caprera setE
A name that earth will not forgetE
Till earth has roll'd her latest yearN
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VIIIH
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I once half crazed for larger lightO
On broader zones beyond the foamP
But chaining fancy now at homeP
Among the quarried downs of WightO
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IXJ
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Not less would yield full thanks to youQ
For your rich gift your tale of landsJ
I know not your Arabian sandsJ
Your cane your palm tree fern bambooQ
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XJ
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The wealth of tropic bower and brakeR
Your Oriental Eden islesJ
Where man nor only Nature smilesJ
Your wonder of the boiling lakeR
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XIJ
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Phra Chai the Shadow of the BestS
Phra bat the step your Pontic coastT
Crag cloister Anatolian GhostT
Hong Kong Karnac and all the restS
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XIIJ
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Thro' which I follow'd line by lineD
Your leading hand and came my friendU
To prize your various book and sendU
A gift of slenderer value mineD

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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