Boat-song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHDHD IJIJKDKD| Adrift with starlit skies above | A |
| With starlit seas below | B |
| We move with all the suns that move | C |
| With all the seas that flow | B |
| For bond or free earth sky and sea | D |
| Wheel with one central will | E |
| And thy heart drifteth on to me | D |
| And only Time stands still | E |
| - | |
| Between two shores of death we drift | F |
| Behind are things forgot | G |
| Before the tide is racing swift | F |
| To shores man knoweth not | G |
| Above the sky is far and cold | H |
| Below the moaning sea | D |
| Sweeps o'er the loves that were of old | H |
| But thou Love love thou me | D |
| - | |
| Ah lonely are the ocean ways | I |
| And dangerous the deep | J |
| And frail the fairy barque that strays | I |
| Above the seas asleep | J |
| Ah toil no more with helm or oar | K |
| We drift or bond or free | D |
| On yon far shore the breakers roar | K |
| But thou Love love thou me | D |
Andrew Lang
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