Lines For A Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DCE FGH IHJ KDE CLC CMN COP| These alternate nights and days these seasons | A |
| Somehow fail to convince me It seems | B |
| I have the sense of infinity | C |
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| In your dreams O crew of Columbus | D |
| O listeners over the sea | C |
| For the surf that breaks upon Nothing | E |
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| Once I was waked by the nightingales in the garden | F |
| I thought What time is it I thought | G |
| Time Is it Time still Now is it Time | H |
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| Tell me your dreams O sailors | I |
| Tell me in sleep did you climb | H |
| The tall masts and before you | J |
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| At night the stillness of old trees | K |
| Is a leaning over and the inertness | D |
| Of hills is a kind of waiting | E |
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| In sleep in a dream did you see | C |
| The world s end Did the water | L |
| Break and no shore Did you see | C |
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| Strange faces come through the streets to me | C |
| Like messengers and I have been warned | M |
| By the moving slowly of hands at a window | N |
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| Oh I have the sense of infinity | C |
| But the world sailors is round | O |
| They say there is no end to it | P |
Archibald Macleish
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