The Spaniards' Graves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF CGCC BHIH JKJK LDLD MNMN ODOD| O sailors did sweet eyes look after you | A |
| The day you sailed away from sunny Spain | B |
| Bright eyes that followed fading ship and crew | A |
| Melting in tender rain | B |
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| Did no one dream of that drear night to be | C |
| Wild with the wind fierce with the stinging snow | D |
| When on yon granite point that frets the sea | C |
| The ship met her death blow | D |
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| Fifty long years ago these sailors died | E |
| None know how many sleep beneath the waves | F |
| Fourteen gray headstones rising side by side | E |
| Point out their nameless graves | F |
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| Lonely unknown deserted but for me | C |
| And the wild birds that flit with mournful cry | G |
| And sadder winds and voices of the sea | C |
| That moans perpetually | C |
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| Wives mothers maidens wistfully in vain | B |
| Questioned the distance for the yearning sail | H |
| That leaning landward should have stretched again | I |
| White arms wide on the gale | H |
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| To bring back their beloved Year by year | J |
| Weary they watched till youth and beauty passed | K |
| And lustrous eyes grew dim and age drew near | J |
| And hope was dead at last | K |
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| Still summer broods o'er that delicious land | L |
| Rich fragrant warm with skies of golden glow | D |
| Live any yet of that forsaken band | L |
| Who loved so long ago | D |
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| Spanish women over the far seas | M |
| Could I but show you where your dead repose | N |
| Could I send tidings on this northern breeze | M |
| That strong and steady blows | N |
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| Dear dark eyed sisters you remember yet | O |
| These you have lost but you can never know | D |
| One stands at their bleak graves whose eyes are wet | O |
| With thinking of your woe | D |
Celia Thaxter
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