Ulysses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EFBGBHIGBJBKLKBMNBOD PKKQKKR BSTUBVKWXBY WBDZA2B2C2ND2BBE2BF2 F2BBF2G2BH2I2BKBTF2| It little profits that an idle king | A |
| By this still hearth among these barren crags | B |
| Matched with an aged wife I mete and dole | C |
| Unequal laws unto a savage race | B |
| That hoard and sleep and feed and know not me | D |
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| I cannot rest from travel I will drink | E |
| Life to the lees all times I have enjoyed | F |
| Greatly have suffered greatly both with those | B |
| That loved me and alone on shore and when | G |
| Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades | B |
| Vext the dim sea I am become a name | H |
| For always roaming with a hungry heart | I |
| Much have I seen and known cities of men | G |
| And manners climates councils governments | B |
| Myself not least but honoured of them all | J |
| And drunk delight of battle with my peers | B |
| Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy | K |
| I am part of all that I have met | L |
| Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough | K |
| Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades | B |
| For ever and for ever when I move | M |
| How dull it is to pause to make an end | N |
| To rust unburnished not to shine in use | B |
| As though to breath were life Life piled on life | O |
| Were all to little and of one to me | D |
| Little remains but every hour is saved | P |
| From that eternal silence something more | K |
| A bringer of new things and vile it were | K |
| For some three suns to store and hoard myself | Q |
| And this gray spirit yearning in desire | K |
| To follow knowledge like a sinking star | K |
| Beyond the utmost bound of human thought | R |
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| This is my son mine own Telemachus | B |
| To whom I leave the scepter and the isle | S |
| Well loved of me discerning to fulfill | T |
| This labour by slow prudence to make mild | U |
| A rugged people and through soft degrees | B |
| Subdue them to the useful and the good | V |
| Most blameless is he centered in the sphere | K |
| Of common duties decent not to fail | W |
| In offices of tenderness and pay | X |
| Meet adoration to my household gods | B |
| When I am gone He works his work I mine | Y |
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| There lies the port the vessel puffs her sail | W |
| There gloom the dark broad seas My mariners | B |
| Souls that have toiled and wrought and thought with me | D |
| That ever with a frolic welcome took | Z |
| The thunder and the sunshine and opposed | A2 |
| Free hearts free foreheads you and I are old | B2 |
| Old age had yet his honour and his toil | C2 |
| Death closes all but something ere the end | N |
| Some work of noble note may yet be done | D2 |
| Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods | B |
| The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks | B |
| The long day wanes the slow moon climbs the deep | E2 |
| Moans round with many voices Come my friends | B |
| 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world | F2 |
| Push off and sitting well in order smite | F2 |
| The sounding furrows for my purpose holds | B |
| To sail beyond the sunset and the baths | B |
| Of all the western stars until I die | F2 |
| It may be that the gulfs will wash us down | G2 |
| It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles | B |
| And see the great Achilles whom we knew | H2 |
| Though much is taken much abides and though | I2 |
| We are not now that strength which in the old days | B |
| Moved earth and heaven that which we are we are | K |
| One equal temper of heroic hearts | B |
| Made weak by time and fate but strong in will | T |
| To strive to seek to find and not to yield | F2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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