Lars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC CFCF GHGH CICJ CKCK CLCL ICIC MCMC NCNC LOLO ILJL CPCP QCQC CCCC RSRS COCO CFCF

Tell us a story of these Isles they saidA
The daughters of the West whose eyes had seenB
For the first time the circling sea insteadA
Of the blown prairie's waves of grassy greenB
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Tell us of wreck and peril storm and coldC
Wild as the wildest Under summer starsD
With the slow moonrise at our back I toldC
The story of the young Norwegian LarsD
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That youth with the black eyebrows sharply drawnE
In strong curves like some sea bird's wings outspreadC
O'er his dark eyes is Lars and this fair dawnE
Of womanhood the maiden he will wedC
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She loves him for the dangers he has pastC
Her rosy beauty glowed before his sternF
And vigilant regard until at lastC
Her sweetness vanquished Lars the taciturnF
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For he is ever quiet strong and wiseG
Wastes nothing not a gesture nor a breathH
Forgets not gazing in the maiden's eyesG
A year ago it was not love but deathH
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That clasped him and can hardly learn as yetC
How to be merry haunted by that painI
And terror and remembering with regretC
The comrade he can never see againJ
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Out from the harbor on that winter dayC
Sailed the two men to set their trawl togetherK
Down swept the sudden snow squall o'er the bayC
And hurled their slight boat onward like a featherK
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They tossed they knew not whither till at lastC
Under the lighthouse cliff they found a leeL
And out the road lines of the trawl they castC
To moor her is so happy they might beL
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But quick the slender road lines snapt in twainI
In the wild breakers and once more they tossedC
Adrift and watching from his misty paneI
The lighthouse keeper muttered They are lostC
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Lifted the snow night fell swift cleared the skyM
The air grew sharp as death with polar coldC
Raged the insensate gale and flashing highM
In starlight keen the hissing billows rolledC
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Driven before the winds incessant scourgeN
All night they fled one dead ere morning layC
Lars saw his strange drawn countenance emergeN
In the fierce sunrise light of that drear dayC
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And thought A little space and I shall beL
Even as he and gazing in despairO
O'er the wide weltering waste no sign could seeL
Of hope of help or comfort anywhereO
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Two hundred miles before the hurricaneI
The dead and living drove across the seaL
The third day dawned His dim eyes saw againJ
The vast green plain breaking eternallyL
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In ghastly waves But in the early lightC
On the horizon glittering like a starP
Fast growing looming tall with canvas whiteC
Sailed his salvation southward from afarP
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Down she bore rushing o'er the hills of brineQ
Straight for his feeble signal As she passedC
Out from the schooner's deck they flung a lineQ
And o'er his head the open noose was castC
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Clutching with both his hands the bowline knotC
Caught at his throat swift drawn through fire he seemedC
Whelmed in the icy sea and he forgotC
Life death and all things yet he thought he dreamedC
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A dread voice cried We've lost him and a stingR
Of anguish pierced his clouded senses throughS
A moment more and like a lifeless thingR
He lay among the eager pitying crewS
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Long time he swooned while o'er the ocean vastC
The dead man tossed alone they knew not whereO
But youth and health triumphant were at lastC
And here is Lars you see and here the fairO
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Young snow and rose bloom maiden he will wedC
His face is kindly thought it seems so sternF
Death passed him by and life begins insteadC
For Thora sweet and Lars the taciturnF

Celia Thaxter



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