Ulysses' Last Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCD EFG HIA IJI JEK EK| I launched her with my small remaining band | A |
| and putting out to sea we set the main | B |
| on that lone ship and said farewell to land | A |
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| Far to starboard rose the coast of Spain | B |
| astern was Sardi Islas at our bow | C |
| and soon we saw Morocco port abeam | D |
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| Though I and comrades now were old and slow | E |
| we hauled till nightfall for the narrow sound | F |
| where Hercules had shown what not to do | G |
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| by setting marks for men to stay behind | H |
| At dawn the starboard lookout made Seville | I |
| and at the straits stood Ceuta t'other hand | A |
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| 'Brothers ' I shouted 'who have had the will | I |
| to come through danger and have reached the west | J |
| our time awake is brief from now until | I |
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| the senses die and so I say we test | J |
| the sun's own motion and do not forego | E |
| the worlds beyond unknown and peopleless | K |
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| Think of the roots from which you sprang and show | E |
| that you are human not unconscious brutes | K |
| but made to follow virtue and to know ' | - |
Dante Alighieri
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