Ballade Of The Voyage To Cythera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEEFEG CBCBBEEFE CBCBBEEFE H EEFE| I know Cythera long is desolate | A |
| I know the winds have stripp'd the gardens green | B |
| Alas my friends beneath the fierce sun's weight | C |
| A barren reef lies where Love's flowers have been | D |
| Nor ever lover on that coast is seen | B |
| So be it but we seek a fabled shore | E |
| To lull our vague desires with mystic lore | E |
| To wander where Love's labyrinths beguile | F |
| There let us land there dream for evermore | E |
| 'It may be we shall touch the happy isle ' | G |
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| The sea may be our sepulchre If Fate | C |
| If tempests wreak their wrath on us serene | B |
| We watch the bolt of heaven and scorn the hate | C |
| Of angry gods that smite us in their spleen | B |
| Perchance the jealous mists are but the screen | B |
| That veils the fairy coast we would explore | E |
| Come though the sea be vex'd and breakers roar | E |
| Come for the air of this old world is vile | F |
| Haste we and toil and faint not at the oar | E |
| 'It may be we shall touch the happy isle ' | - |
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| Grey serpents trail in temples desecrate | C |
| Where Cypris smiled the golden maid the queen | B |
| And ruined is the palace of our state | C |
| But happy Loves flit round the mast and keen | B |
| The shrill wind sings the silken cords between | B |
| Heroes are we with wearied hearts and sore | E |
| Whose flower is faded and whose locks are hoar | E |
| Yet haste light skiffs where myrtle thickets smile | F |
| Love's panthers sleep 'mid roses as of yore | E |
| 'It may be we shall touch the happy isle ' | - |
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| ENVOY | H |
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| Sad eyes the blue sea laughs as heretofore | E |
| Ah singing birds your happy music pour | E |
| Ah poets leave the sordid earth awhile | F |
| Flit to these ancient gods we still adore | E |
| 'It may be we shall touch the happy isle ' | - |
Andrew Lang
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