A More Ancient Mariner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBFB GBGB HGBG ICIC JBCB GKLK MBCB ENGD OEBE PGGG QRGR CNGN CSHS TBDB CTCT UBBB VGVGThe swarthy bee is a buccaneer | A |
A burly velveted rover | B |
Who loves the booming wind in his ear | A |
As he sails the seas of clover | B |
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A waif of the goblin pirate crew | C |
With not a soul to deplore him | D |
He steers for the open verge of blue | C |
With the filmy world before him | D |
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His flimsy sails abroad on the wind | E |
Are shivered with fairy thunder | B |
On a line that sings to the light of his wings | F |
He makes for the lands of wonder | B |
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He harries the ports of the Hollyhocks | G |
And levies on poor Sweetbrier | B |
He drinks the whitest wine of Phlox | G |
And the Rose is his desire | B |
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He hangs in the Willows a night and a day | H |
He rifles the Buckwheat patches | G |
Then battens his store of pelf galore | B |
Under the tautest hatches | G |
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He woos the Poppy and weds the Peach | I |
Inveigles Daffodilly | C |
And then like a tramp abandons each | I |
For the gorgeous Canada Lily | C |
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There's not a soul in the garden world | J |
But wishes the day were shorter | B |
When Mariner B puts out to sea | C |
With the wind in the proper quarter | B |
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Or so they say But I have my doubts | G |
For the flowers are only human | K |
And the valor and gold of a vagrant bold | L |
Were always dear to woman | K |
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He dares to boast along the coast | M |
The beauty of Highland Heather | B |
How he and she with night on the sea | C |
Lay out on the hills together | B |
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He pilfers from every port of the wind | E |
From April to golden autumn | N |
But the thieving ways of his mortal days | G |
Are those his mother taught him | D |
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His morals are mixed but his will is fixed | O |
He prospers after his kind | E |
And follows an instinct compass sure | B |
The philosophers call blind | E |
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And that is why when he comes to die | P |
He'll have an easier sentence | G |
Than some one I know who thinks just so | G |
And then leaves room for repentance | G |
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He never could box the compass round | Q |
He doesn't know port from starboard | R |
But he knows the gates of the Sundown Straits | G |
Where the choicest goods are harbored | R |
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He never could see the Rule of Three | C |
But he knows a rule of thumb | N |
Better than Euclid's better than yours | G |
Or the teachers' yet to come | N |
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He knows the smell of the hydromel | C |
As if two and two were five | S |
And hides it away for a year and a day | H |
In his own hexagonal hive | S |
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Out in the day hap hazard alone | T |
Booms the old vagrant hummer | B |
With only his whim to pilot him | D |
Through the splendid vast of summer | B |
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He steers and steers on the slant of the gale | C |
Like the fiend or Vanderdecken | T |
And there's never an unknown course to sail | C |
But his crazy log can reckon | T |
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He drones along with his rough sea song | U |
And the throat of a salty tar | B |
This devil may care till he makes his lair | B |
By the light of a yellow star | B |
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He looks like a gentleman lives like a lord | V |
And works like a Trojan hero | G |
Then loafs all winter upon his hoard | V |
With the mercury at zero | G |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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