Re-voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC ADADEE FCFCGG FHFHII FCFCJJ FKFKDD| What of the days when we two dreamed together | A |
| Days marvellously fair | B |
| As lightsome as a skyward floating feather | A |
| Sailing on summer air | B |
| Summer summer that came drifting through | C |
| Fate's hand to me to you | C |
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| What of the days my dear I sometimes wonder | A |
| If you too wish this sky | D |
| Could be the blue we sailed so softly under | A |
| In that sun kissed July | D |
| Sailed in the warm and yellow afternoon | E |
| With hearts in touch and tune | E |
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| Have you no longing to re live the dreaming | F |
| Adrift in my canoe | C |
| To watch my paddle blade all wet and gleaming | F |
| Cleaving the waters through | C |
| To lie wind blown and wave caressed until | G |
| Your restless pulse grows still | G |
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| Do you not long to listen to the purling | F |
| Of foam athwart the keel | H |
| To hear the nearing rapids softly swirling | F |
| Among their stones to feel | H |
| The boat's unsteady tremor as it braves | I |
| The wild and snarling waves | I |
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| What need of question what of your replying | F |
| Oh well I know that you | C |
| Would toss the world away to be but lying | F |
| Again in my canoe | C |
| In listless indolence entranced and lost | J |
| Wave rocked and passion tossed | J |
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| Ah me my paddle failed me in the steering | F |
| Across love's shoreless seas | K |
| All reckless I had ne'er a thought of fearing | F |
| Such dreary days as these | K |
| When through the self same rapids we dash by | D |
| My lone canoe and I | D |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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