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 HBHB

Hail lonely shore hail desert caveA
To you o'erjoyed from men I flyB
And here I'll make my early graveA
For what can misery do but dieB
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Sad was the hour when fraught with guileC
Spain's cruel sons our valleys soughtD
Unknown to us the Christian's wileC
Unknown the dark deceiver's thoughtD
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They said that here for ever blestE
Our loved forefathers lived and reignedF
And we by pious fondness prestE
Believed the flattering tales they feignedF
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But when we learnt the mournful truthG
No I'll the horrid tale forbearH
For on our trusting blighted youthG
My brethren who will drop a tearH
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Thou treasure of these burning eyesI
Where wave thy groves dear native isleC
Methinks where yon blue mountains riseI
'Tis there thy precious valleys smileC
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Yes yes these tears of joy that startJ
The softly soothing truth declareH
Thou whisperest right my beating heartJ
My loved regretted home is thereH
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But then its trees that wave so highB
The glittering birds that deck each groveK
I cannot cannot hence descryH
Nor dearer far the forms I loveL
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Yet still the winds that cool my browH
And o'er these murmuring waters comeM
A joy that mocks belief bestowN
For sure they lately left my homeO
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Then deeply I'll the breeze inhaleP
To life it yet imparts one joyQ
Methinks your breath has filled the galeP
My faithful love my prattling boyQ
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My prattling boy my beauteous wifeR
Say do you still my name repeatS
And only bear the load of lifeR
In hopes that we once more may meetS
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My love in dreams thou still art nighB
But changed and pale thou seemest to beT
Yet still the more thou charmest my eyeB
I think thee changed by love for meT
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While oft to fond remembrance trueH
I see thee seek the sparkling sandU
In hopes the little bark to viewH
That bears me to my native landU
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But never more shall Zama's eyeB
Her loved returning husband seeT
Nor more her locks of ebon dyeB
Shall Zama fondly braid for meT
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Yet still with hope chastised by fearH
Watch for my bark from yonder shoreH
And still my Zama think me nearH
When this torn bosom throbs no moreH
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Yet surely hope each day deceivedV
At length to daring deeds will fireH
The Spaniard's tale no more believedV
My fate will fearful doubts inspireH
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And then blest thought across the mainW
Thou'lt haste thy injured love to findX
All danger scorn all fears disdainW
And gladly trust the waves and windX
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Ha even now the distant skyB
Seems by one spot of darkness crostX
Yes yes a vessel meets my eyeB
Or else I gaze in phrensy lostX
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It hither steers No beating breastX
Too well I see what bade thee glowN
The sea bird hastening to its nestX
To taste a joy I ne'er shall knowN
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Moment of hope too bright to lastX
Thou hast but deepened my despairH
But woe's severest pangs are pastX
For life's last closing hours are nearH
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'T was morn when first this beach I soughtX
Now evening's shadows fill the plainW
Yet here I've stood entranced in thoughtX
Unheeding thirst fatigue or painW
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'T is past I faint my throbbing browH
Cold clammy drops I feel bedewX
Dear native shore where art thou nowH
Some Spaniard shuts thee from my viewH
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Monster away and let me tasteX
That joy in death in life deniedX
Still let me o'er the watery wasteX
Behold the hills which Zama hideX
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Alas I rave no foe is nearH
'T is death's thick mist obscures my sightX
Those precious hills to memory dearH
No more shall these fond eyes delightX
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But sent from thee my native shoreH
Again that precious breeze is nighB
Zama I feel thy breath once moreH
And now content transported dieB

Amelia Opie



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