The Distant Ship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEF DGHG FIFJKLML NONO PMPM| The sea bird's wing o'er ocean's breast | A |
| Shoots like a glancing star | B |
| While the red radiance of the west | A |
| Spreads kindling fast and far | B |
| And yet that splendour wins thee not | C |
| Thy still and thoughtful eye | D |
| Dwells but on one dark distant spot | C |
| Of all the main and sky | D |
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| Look round thee o'er the slumbering deep | E |
| A solemn glory broods | F |
| A fire hath touch'd the beacon steep | E |
| And all the golden woods | F |
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| A thousand gorgeous clouds on high | D |
| Burn with the amber light | G |
| What spell from that rich pageantry | H |
| Chains down thy gazing sight | G |
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| A softening thought of human cares | F |
| A feeling link'd to earth | I |
| Is not yon speck a bark which bears | F |
| The lov'd of many a hearth | J |
| Oh do not Hope and Grief and Fear | K |
| Crowd her frail world even now | L |
| And manhood's prayer and woman's tear | M |
| Follow her venturous prow | L |
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| Bright are the floating clouds above | N |
| The glittering seas below | O |
| But we are bound by cords of love | N |
| To kindred weal and wo | O |
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| Therefore amidst this wide array | P |
| Of glorious things and fair | M |
| My soul is on that bark's lone way | P |
| For human hearts are there | M |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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