The Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JKJKLCLE| Does the wind sing in your ears at night in the town | A |
| Rattling the windows and doors of the cheap built place | B |
| Do you hear its song as it flies over marsh and down | A |
| Do you feel the kiss that the wind leaves here on my face | B |
| Or wrapt in a lamplit quiet do you restrain | C |
| Thoughts that would take the wind's way hither to me | D |
| And bid them rest safe anchored nor tempt again | E |
| The tumult and torment and passion that live in the sea | D |
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| I for my part when the wind sings loud in its might | F |
| I bid it hush nor awaken again the storm | G |
| That swept my heart out to sea on a moonless night | F |
| And dashed it ashore on an island wondrous and warm | G |
| Where all things fair and forbidden for ever flower | H |
| Where the worst of life is a dream and the best comes true | I |
| When the harvest of years was reaped in a single hour | H |
| And the gods for once were honest with me and you | I |
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| I will not hear when the wind and the sea cry out | J |
| I will not trust again to the hurrying wind | K |
| I will not swim again in a sea of doubt | J |
| And reach that shore with the world left well behind | K |
| But you I would have you listen to every call | L |
| Of the changing wind as it blows over marsh and main | C |
| And heap life's joys in your hands and offer them all | L |
| If only your feet might touch that island again | E |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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