In Harbour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA ABA BABA A CDCD DCD CDCD| I | A |
| - | |
| Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us | B |
| As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by | A |
| To the waters of gloom whence winds of the dayspring float us | B |
| Goodnight and goodbye | A |
| - | |
| A time is for mourning a season for grief to sigh | A |
| But were we not fools and blind by day to devote us | B |
| As thralls to the darkness unseen of the sundawn's eye | A |
| - | |
| We have drunken of Lethe at length we have eaten of lotus | B |
| What hurts it us here that sorrows are born and die | A |
| We have said to the dream that caressed and the dread that smote us | B |
| Goodnight and goodbye | A |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Outside of the port ye are moored in lying | C |
| Close from the wind and at ease from the tide | D |
| What sounds come swelling what notes fall dying | C |
| Outside | D |
| - | |
| They will not cease they will not abide | D |
| Voices of presage in darkness crying | C |
| Pass and return and relapse aside | D |
| - | |
| Ye see not but hear ye not wild wings flying | C |
| To the future that wakes from the past that died | D |
| Is grief still sleeping is joy not sighing | C |
| Outside | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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