Barcarolle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII FFJJ KKLL MMJJ| The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay | A |
| And lights that win are seen in strife with lights that die away | A |
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| The wave is very still the rudder loosens in our hand | B |
| The zephyr will not fill our sail and waft us to the land | B |
| O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go | C |
| And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow | C |
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| No sound but sound of rest is on the bosom of the deep | D |
| Soft as the breathing of a breast serenly hushed with sleep | D |
| Lay by the ear there is a voice at heart to sing or sigh | E |
| O what shall be the choice of barcarolle or lullaby | E |
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| Say shall we sing of day or night fair land or mighty ocean | F |
| Of any rapturous delight or any dear emotion | F |
| Of any joy that is on earth or hope that is above | G |
| The holy country of our birth or any song of love | G |
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| Our heart in all our life is like the hand of one who steers | H |
| A bark upon an ocean rife with dangers and with fears | H |
| The joys the hopes like waves or wings bear up this life of ours | I |
| Short as a song of all these things that make up all its hours | I |
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| Spread sail For it is Hope today that like a wind new risen | F |
| Doth waft us on a golden wing towards a new horizon | F |
| That is the sun before our sight the beacon for us burning | J |
| That is the star in all our night of watching and of yearning | J |
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| Love is this thing that we pursue today tonight for ever | K |
| We care not whither know not who shall be at length the giver | K |
| For Love our life and all our years are cast upon the waves | L |
| Our heart is as the hand that steers but who is He that saves | L |
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| We ply with oars we strive with every sail upon our mast | M |
| We never tire never fail and Love is seen at last | M |
| A low and purple mirage like a coast where day is breaking | J |
| Sink sail for such a dream of Love is lost before the waking | J |
Arthur William Edgar O'shaughnessy
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