Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEFGFGHHIHJJ| As of old Phoenician men to the Tin Isles sailing | A |
| Straight against the sunset and the edges of the earth | B |
| Chaunted loud above the storm and the strange sea's wailing | A |
| Legends of their people and the land that gave them birth | B |
| Sang aloud to Baal Peor sang unto the horned maiden | C |
| Sang how they should come again with the Brethon treasure laden | C |
| Sang of all the pride and glory of their hardy enterprise | D |
| How they found the outer islands where the unknown stars arise | D |
| And the rowers down below rowing hard as they could row | E |
| Toiling at the stroke and feather through the wet and weary weather | F |
| Even they forgot their burden in the measure of a song | G |
| And the merchants and the masters and the bondsmen all together | F |
| Dreaming of the wondrous islands brought the gallant ship along | G |
| So in mighty deeps alone on the chainless breezes blown | H |
| In my coracle of verses I will sing of lands unknown | H |
| Flying from the scarlet city where a Lord that knows no pity | I |
| Mocks the broken people praying round his iron throne | H |
| Sing about the Hidden Country fresh and full of quiet green | J |
| Sailing over seas uncharted to a port that none has seen | J |
C. S. Lewis
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