The Cruise Of The Galleon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB A CADDEEFC FGFH IJIJ KLKL KFKF KAKA MNMC OPOP QRQR ISIS| This laboring vast Tellurian Galleon | A |
| Riding at anchor off the orient sun | A |
| Had broken its cable and stood out to space | B |
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| FRANCIS THOMPSON | A |
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| Galleon ahoy ahoy | C |
| Old earth riding off the sun | A |
| And straining at your cable as you ride | D |
| On the tide | D |
| Battered laboring and vast | E |
| In the blast | E |
| Of the hurricane that blows between the worlds | F |
| Ahoy | C |
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| 'Morning shipmates 'Drift and chartless | F |
| Laded deep and rolling hard | G |
| Never guessed outworn and heartless | F |
| There was land so close aboard | H |
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| Ice on every shroud and eyelet | I |
| Rocking in the windy trough | J |
| No more panic Man's your pilot | I |
| Turns the flood and we are off | J |
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| At the story of disaster | K |
| From the continents of sleep | L |
| I am come to be your master | K |
| And put out into the deep | L |
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| What tide current struck you hither | K |
| Beating up the storm of years | F |
| Where are those who stood to weather | K |
| These uncharted gulfs of tears | F |
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| Did your fellows all drive under | K |
| In the maelstrom of the sun | A |
| While you only for a wonder | K |
| Rode the wash you could not shun | A |
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| We'll crowd sail across the sea line | M |
| Clear this harbor reef and buoy | N |
| Bowling down an open bee line | M |
| For the latitudes of joy | C |
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| Till beyond the zones of sorrow | O |
| Past griefs haven in the night | P |
| Some large simpler world shall morrow | O |
| This pale region's northern light | P |
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| Not a fear but all the sea room | Q |
| Wherein time is but a bay | R |
| Yet shall sparkle for our lee room | Q |
| In the vast Altrurian day | R |
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| And the dauntless seaworn spirit | I |
| Shall awake to know there are | S |
| What dominions to inherit | I |
| Anchored off another star | S |
Bliss Carman (william)
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