A Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HBHB IJIJ BKBK DLDL MNMN| A | |
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| Breathing the stale and stuffy air | B |
| Of office or consulting room | C |
| Our thoughts will wander back to where | B |
| We heard the low Atlantic boom | C |
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| And creaming underneath our screw | D |
| We watched the swirling waters break | E |
| Silver filagrees on blue | D |
| Spreading fan wise in our wake | E |
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| Cribbed within the city's fold | F |
| Fettered to our daily round | G |
| We'll conjure up the haze of gold | F |
| Which ringed the wide horizon round | G |
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| And still we'll break the sordid day | H |
| By fleeting visions far and fair | B |
| The silver shield of Vigo Bay | H |
| The long brown cliff of Finisterre | B |
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| Where once the Roman galley sped | I |
| Or Moorish corsair spread his sail | J |
| By wooded shore or sunlit head | I |
| By barren hill or sea washed vale | J |
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| We took our way But we can swear | B |
| That many countries we have scanned | K |
| But never one that could compare | B |
| With our own island mother land | K |
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| The dream is o'er No more we view | D |
| The shores of Christian or of Turk | L |
| But turning to our tasks anew | D |
| We bend us to our wonted work | L |
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| But there will come to you and me | M |
| Some glimpse of spacious days gone by | N |
| The wide wide stretches of the sea | M |
| The mighty curtain of the sky | N |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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