Columbus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDDEE AFAFGGGHHIE EJEJAA KKEE| How in God's name did Columbus get over | A |
| Is a pure wonder to me I protest | B |
| Cabot and Raleigh too that well read rover | A |
| Frobisher Dampier Drake and the rest | B |
| Bad enough all the same | C |
| For them that after came | C |
| But in great Heaven's name | C |
| How he should ever think | D |
| That on the other brink | D |
| Of this wild waste terra firma should be | E |
| Is a pure wonder I must say to me | E |
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| How a man ever should hope to get thither | A |
| E'en if he knew that there was another side | F |
| But to suppose he should come any whither | A |
| Sailing straight on into chaos untried | F |
| In spite of the motion | G |
| Across the whole ocean | G |
| To stick to the notion | G |
| That in some nook or bend | H |
| Of a sea without end | H |
| He should find North and South America | I |
| Was a pure madness indeed I must say to me | E |
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| What if wise men had as far back as Ptolemy | E |
| Judged that the earth like an orange was round | J |
| None of them ever said Come along follow me | E |
| Sail to the West and the East will be found | J |
| Many a day before | A |
| Ever they'd come ashore | A |
| From the 'San Salvador ' | - |
| Sadder and wiser men | K |
| They'd have turned back again | K |
| And that he did not but did cross the sea | E |
| Is a pure wonder I must say to me | E |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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