The Master Of The Isles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA BCDC EFAF GAHA AIGI BJGJ AKLK MNON APBP AQAQ ARAR BSAS TUVU GWAW AXYX ZA2B2A2 C2D2E2D2 NF2ZF2 ZG2H2G2 AEGE AJRJThere is rumor in Dark Harbor | A |
And the folk are all astir | A |
For a stranger in the offing | B |
Draws them down to gaze at her | A |
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In the gray of early morning | B |
Black against the orange streak | C |
Making in below the ledges | D |
With no colors at her peak | C |
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Something makes their hearts uneasy | E |
As they watch the long black hull | F |
For she brings the storm behind her | A |
While before her there is lull | F |
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With no pilot and unspoken | G |
Where the dancing breakers are | A |
Presently she veers and races | H |
In across the roaring bar | A |
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Rounds and luffs and comes to anchor | A |
While the wharf begins to throng | I |
Silence falls upon the women | G |
And misgiving stirs the strong | I |
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Then with some obscure foreboding | B |
As a gray haired watcher smiles | J |
They perceive the fearless captain | G |
Is the Master of the Isles | J |
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They recall the bleak December | A |
Many streaming years ago | K |
When the stranger had been sighted | L |
Driving shoreward with the snow | K |
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When the Master came among them | M |
With his calm and courtly pride | N |
And had sailed away at sundown | O |
With pale Dora for his bride | N |
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How again he came one summer | A |
When the herring schools were late | P |
And had cleared before the morning | B |
With old Alec's son for mate | P |
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There was glamour with the Master | A |
He had tales of far off seas | Q |
But his habit and demeanor | A |
Were of other lands than these | Q |
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He had never made the Harbor | A |
But there sailed away with him | R |
Wife or child or friend or lover | A |
Leaving eyes to strain and swim | R |
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Strain and wait for their returning | B |
Yet they never had come back | S |
For the pale wake of the Master | A |
Is a wandering fading track | S |
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Just beyond our utmost fathom | T |
Is the anchorage we crave | U |
But the Master knows the soundings | V |
By the reach of every wave | U |
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Just beyond the last horizon | G |
Vague upon the weather gleam | W |
Loom the Faroff Isles forever | A |
The tradition of a dream | W |
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There a white and brooding summer | A |
Haunts upon the gray sea plain | X |
Where the gray sea winds are quiet | Y |
At the sources of the rain | X |
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There where all world weary dreamers | Z |
Get them forth to their release | A2 |
Lie the colonies of the kindred | B2 |
In the provinces of peace | A2 |
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Thither in the stormy sunset | C2 |
Will the Master sail to night | D2 |
And the village will be silent | E2 |
When he drops below the light | D2 |
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Not a soul on all the hillside | N |
But will watch her when she clears | F2 |
Dreaming of the Port o' Strangers | Z |
In the roadstead of the years | F2 |
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Port o' Strangers Port o' Strangers | Z |
Where away On the weather bow | G2 |
Drive her down the closing distance | H2 |
That's to morrow but not now | G2 |
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What imperial adventure | A |
Some wide morning it will be | E |
Sweeping in to Lonely Haven | G |
From the chartless round of sea | E |
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How imposing a departure | A |
While this little harbor smiles | J |
Steering for the outer sea rim | R |
With the Master of the Isles | J |
Bliss Carman (william)
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