The Last Song Of Sappho Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG AHAH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQS FAFA| SOUND on thou dark unslumbering sea | A |
| My dirge is in thy moan | B |
| My spirit finds response in thee | A |
| To its own ceaseless cry 'Alone alone ' | C |
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| Yet send me back one other word | D |
| Ye tones that never cease | E |
| Oh let your secret caves be stirr'd | D |
| And say dark waters will ye give me peace | E |
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| Away my weary soul hath sought | F |
| In vain one echoing sigh | G |
| One answer to consuming thought | F |
| In human hearts and will the wave reply | G |
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| Sound on thou dark unslumbering sea | A |
| Sound in thy scorn and pride | H |
| I ask not alien world from thee | A |
| What my own kindred earth hath still denied | H |
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| And yet I loved that earth so well | I |
| With all its lovely things | J |
| Was it for this the death wind fell | I |
| On my rich lyre and quench'd its living strings | J |
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| Let them lie silent at my feet | K |
| Since broken even as they | L |
| The heart whose music made them sweet | K |
| Hath pour'd on desert sands its wealth away | L |
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| Yet glory's light hath touch'd my name | M |
| The laurel wreath is mine | N |
| With a lone heart a weary frame | M |
| O restless deep I come to make them thine | N |
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| Give to that crown that burning crown | O |
| Place in thy darkest hold | P |
| Bury my anguish my renown | O |
| With hidden wrecks lost gems and wasted gold | P |
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| Thou sea bird on the billow's crest | Q |
| Thou hast thy love thy home | R |
| They wait thee in the quiet nest | Q |
| And I the unsought unwatch'd for I too come | S |
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| I with this winged nature fraught | F |
| These visions wildly free | A |
| This boundless love this fiery thought | F |
| Alone I come oh give me peace dark sea | A |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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