The Needle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBDC EEA FDGHG| Come or the stellar tide will slip away | A |
| Eastward avoid the hour of its decline | B |
| Now for the needle trembles in my soul | C |
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| Here we have had our vantage the good hour | D |
| Here we have had our day your day and mine | B |
| Come now before this power | D |
| That bears us up shall turn against the pole | C |
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| Mock not the flood of stars the thing's to be | E |
| O Love come now this land turns evil slowly | E |
| The waves bore in soon they bear away | A |
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| The treasure is ours make we fast land with it | F |
| Move we and take the tide with its next favour | D |
| Abide | G |
| Under some neutral force | H |
| Until this course turneth aside | G |
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