The Lucayan's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC JHJH BKHL HMNO PQPQ RSRS BTBT HUHU BTBT HHHH VHVH WXWX BXBX XNXN XHXH XWXW HXHH XXXX HXHX HBHBHail lonely shore hail desert cave | A |
To you o'erjoyed from men I fly | B |
And here I'll make my early grave | A |
For what can misery do but die | B |
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Sad was the hour when fraught with guile | C |
Spain's cruel sons our valleys sought | D |
Unknown to us the Christian's wile | C |
Unknown the dark deceiver's thought | D |
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They said that here for ever blest | E |
Our loved forefathers lived and reigned | F |
And we by pious fondness prest | E |
Believed the flattering tales they feigned | F |
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But when we learnt the mournful truth | G |
No I'll the horrid tale forbear | H |
For on our trusting blighted youth | G |
My brethren who will drop a tear | H |
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Thou treasure of these burning eyes | I |
Where wave thy groves dear native isle | C |
Methinks where yon blue mountains rise | I |
'Tis there thy precious valleys smile | C |
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Yes yes these tears of joy that start | J |
The softly soothing truth declare | H |
Thou whisperest right my beating heart | J |
My loved regretted home is there | H |
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But then its trees that wave so high | B |
The glittering birds that deck each grove | K |
I cannot cannot hence descry | H |
Nor dearer far the forms I love | L |
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Yet still the winds that cool my brow | H |
And o'er these murmuring waters come | M |
A joy that mocks belief bestow | N |
For sure they lately left my home | O |
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Then deeply I'll the breeze inhale | P |
To life it yet imparts one joy | Q |
Methinks your breath has filled the gale | P |
My faithful love my prattling boy | Q |
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My prattling boy my beauteous wife | R |
Say do you still my name repeat | S |
And only bear the load of life | R |
In hopes that we once more may meet | S |
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My love in dreams thou still art nigh | B |
But changed and pale thou seemest to be | T |
Yet still the more thou charmest my eye | B |
I think thee changed by love for me | T |
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While oft to fond remembrance true | H |
I see thee seek the sparkling sand | U |
In hopes the little bark to view | H |
That bears me to my native land | U |
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But never more shall Zama's eye | B |
Her loved returning husband see | T |
Nor more her locks of ebon dye | B |
Shall Zama fondly braid for me | T |
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Yet still with hope chastised by fear | H |
Watch for my bark from yonder shore | H |
And still my Zama think me near | H |
When this torn bosom throbs no more | H |
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Yet surely hope each day deceived | V |
At length to daring deeds will fire | H |
The Spaniard's tale no more believed | V |
My fate will fearful doubts inspire | H |
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And then blest thought across the main | W |
Thou'lt haste thy injured love to find | X |
All danger scorn all fears disdain | W |
And gladly trust the waves and wind | X |
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Ha even now the distant sky | B |
Seems by one spot of darkness crost | X |
Yes yes a vessel meets my eye | B |
Or else I gaze in phrensy lost | X |
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It hither steers No beating breast | X |
Too well I see what bade thee glow | N |
The sea bird hastening to its nest | X |
To taste a joy I ne'er shall know | N |
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Moment of hope too bright to last | X |
Thou hast but deepened my despair | H |
But woe's severest pangs are past | X |
For life's last closing hours are near | H |
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'T was morn when first this beach I sought | X |
Now evening's shadows fill the plain | W |
Yet here I've stood entranced in thought | X |
Unheeding thirst fatigue or pain | W |
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'T is past I faint my throbbing brow | H |
Cold clammy drops I feel bedew | X |
Dear native shore where art thou now | H |
Some Spaniard shuts thee from my view | H |
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Monster away and let me taste | X |
That joy in death in life denied | X |
Still let me o'er the watery waste | X |
Behold the hills which Zama hide | X |
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Alas I rave no foe is near | H |
'T is death's thick mist obscures my sight | X |
Those precious hills to memory dear | H |
No more shall these fond eyes delight | X |
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But sent from thee my native shore | H |
Again that precious breeze is nigh | B |
Zama I feel thy breath once more | H |
And now content transported die | B |
Amelia Opie
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