The Master Mariner-s Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGF HIJIKLKL DMNMNOPO QQOORRRSSTTQQ| Outward Bound | A |
| AWAY away she plunges | B |
| With her white sails o er her spread | C |
| Like the summer clouds that gather | D |
| On some hill s piny head | C |
| Still away she plunges rampant | E |
| Like a lion roused to wrath | F |
| And the proud wave lies humbled | G |
| I the track of her path | F |
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| Ye ho my gallant sailors | H |
| Wear her head from off the land | I |
| As his steed obeys the Arab | J |
| How she gives to the hand | I |
| And now like a soul the world forsaking | K |
| She leaves the coast behind | L |
| And the main is her wide dwelling | K |
| And her spouse is the wind | L |
| - | |
| Then pledge we a full measure | D |
| To the friends we left to day | M |
| Whose kind wishes hover o er us | N |
| On our watery way | M |
| Where diurnally remind us | N |
| Shall the same bright brimming rite | O |
| Of the eyes that yearned blessings | P |
| When last we knew their light | O |
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| The leaf glancing boughs of the o erdoming trees | Q |
| Now seem in wild dance to the pipe of the breeze | Q |
| As clashing and clasping in merry despite | O |
| They mass into shadow or quiver in light | O |
| When cut by their motion the slanting moonbeam | R |
| Falls sifted like coin on the floor of the stream | R |
| That murmurs thereby like a voice in a dream | R |
| Save when the breeze straining in lengthen d escape | S |
| Holds open their sprays for a steadier escape | S |
| Then too bright fragment of Night s ripest blue | T |
| Relieving the leaf work come transiently through | T |
| And broad stars seem glowing as seen amid these | Q |
| Like apples of fire in the tops of the trees | Q |
Charles Harpur
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