Harbor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDCD EFEFGHGH GIGICBCB| AND will you rest at last storm beaten spirit | A |
| In this poor heart who would your haven be | B |
| Will you sink down at last content to inherit | A |
| The common treaures of tranquillity | A |
| Will you forget your high and fierce endeavor | C |
| The hinted island and the hidden seas | D |
| Defeats escapes adventures that forever | C |
| Left you more sad and never more at ease | D |
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| When the west wind on summer evenings blowing | E |
| Brings to your ears the sound of sails that fill | F |
| And moving ships eclipse your starlight going | E |
| To lands unseen and fates that beckon still | F |
| When you shall see beneath the moon new risen | G |
| The hissing wake of other vessels' foam | H |
| Will not this land locked harbor seem a prison | G |
| Where calms and shallows mock the name of home | H |
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| Ah when your longing for the open ocean | G |
| Captures your heart and bids you set your sail | I |
| Feeble will be the bonds of my devotion | G |
| Little will love your own or mine avail | I |
| Happy to you will seem some ship wrecked stranger | C |
| Keener than love the zest of being free | B |
| Sweeter than peace the summoning of danger | C |
| Some day at sunrise you will put to sea | B |
Alice Duer Miller
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