A Song Before Sailing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDAA EEFF GGHH AAII JJKK ILMM NNII OOPP QQDD BBRR| Cras ingens iterabimus aequor | A |
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| Wind of the dead men's feet | B |
| Blow down the empty street | B |
| Of this old city by the sea | C |
| With news for me | C |
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| Blow me beyond the grime | D |
| And pestilence of time | D |
| I am too sick at heart to war | A |
| With failure any more | A |
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| Thy chill is in my bones | E |
| The moonlight on the stones | E |
| Is pale and palpable and cold | F |
| I am as one grown old | F |
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| I call from room to room | G |
| Through the deserted gloom | G |
| The echoes are all words I know | H |
| Lost in some long ago | H |
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| I prowl from door to door | A |
| And find no comrade more | A |
| The wolfish fear that children feel | I |
| Is snuffing at my heel | I |
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| I hear the hollow sound | J |
| Of a great ship coming round | J |
| The thunder of tackle and the tread | K |
| Of sailors overhead | K |
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| That stormy blown hulloo | I |
| Has orders for me too | L |
| I see thee hand at mouth and hark | M |
| My captain of the dark | M |
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| O wind of the great East | N |
| By whom we are released | N |
| From this strange dusty port to sail | I |
| Beyond our fellows' hail | I |
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| Under the stars that keep | O |
| The entry of the deep | O |
| Thy somber voice brings up the sea's | P |
| Forgotten melodies | P |
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| And I have no more need | Q |
| Of bread or wine or creed | Q |
| Bound for the colonies of time | D |
| Beyond the farthest prime | D |
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| Wind of the dead men's feet | B |
| Blow through the empty street | B |
| The last adventurer am I | R |
| Then world good by | R |
Bliss Carman (william)
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