The Golden Island: Arran From Ayr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EAFA GHGH IJIJ KDKD LMLMANAN OJOJ| DEEP set in distant seas it lies | A |
| The morning vapors float and fall | B |
| The noonday clouds above it rise | A |
| Then drop as white as virgin's pall | C |
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| And sometimes when that shroud uplifts | A |
| The far green fields show strange and fair | D |
| Mute waterfalls in sliver rifts | A |
| Sparkle adown the hillside bare | D |
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| But ah mists gather more and more | E |
| And though the blue sky has no tears | A |
| And the sea laughs with light all o'er | F |
| The lovely Island disappears | A |
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| O vanished Island of the blest | G |
| O dream of all things pure and high | H |
| Hid in deep seas as faithful breast | G |
| Hides loves that have but seemed to die | H |
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| Whether on seas dividing tossed | I |
| Or led through fertile lands the while | J |
| Better lose all things than have lost | I |
| The memory of the morning Isle | J |
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| For lo when gloaming shadows glide | K |
| And all is calm in earth and air | D |
| Above the heaving of the tide | K |
| The lonely Island rises fair | D |
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| Its purple peaks shine outlined grand | L |
| And clear as noble lives nigh done | M |
| While stretches bright from land to land | L |
| The broad sea pathway to the sun | M |
| He wraps it in his glory's blaze | A |
| He stoops to kiss its forehead cold | N |
| And all transfigured by his rays | A |
| It gleams an Isle of molten gold | N |
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| The sun may set the shades descend | O |
| Earth sleep and yet while sleeping smile | J |
| But it will live unto life's end | O |
| That vision of the Golden Isle | J |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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