Tusitala Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG| We spoke of a rest in a fairy knowe of the North but he | A |
| Far from the firths of the East and the racing tides of the West | B |
| Sleeps in the sight and the sound of the infinite Southern Sea | A |
| Weary and well content in his grave on the Vaea crest | B |
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| Tusitala the lover of children the teller of tales | C |
| Giver of counsel and dreams a wonder a world's delight | D |
| Looks o'er the labours of men in the plain and the hill and the sails | C |
| Pass and repass on the sea that he loved in the day and the night | D |
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| Winds of the West and the East in the rainy season blow | E |
| Heavy with perfume and all his fragrant woods are wet | F |
| Winds of the East and West as they wander to and fro | E |
| Bear him the love of the land he loved and the long regret | F |
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| Once we were kindest he said when leagues of the limitless sea | A |
| Flowed between us but now that no wash of the wandering tides | G |
| Sunders us each from each yet nearer we seem to be | A |
| Whom only the unbridged stream of the river of Death divides | G |
Andrew Lang
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