The Yacht Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIEE JJKGGLLABEEMMNN| STRANGER the bark you see before you says | A |
| That in old times and in her early days | B |
| She was a lively vessel that could make | C |
| The quickest voyages and overtake | C |
| All her competitors with sail or oar | D |
| And she defies the rude Illyrian shore | D |
| And Rhodes with her proud harbor and the seas | E |
| That intersect the scattered Cyclades | E |
| And the Propontic and the Thracian coast | F |
| Bold as it is to contradict her boast | F |
| She calls to witness the dark Euxine sea | G |
| And mountains that had known her as a tree | G |
| Before her transformation when she stood | H |
| A native of the deep Cytorian wood | H |
| Where all her ancestors had flourished long | I |
| And with their old traditionary song | I |
| Had whispered her responses to the breeze | E |
| And waked the chorus of her sister trees | E |
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| Amastris from your haven forth she went | J |
| You witnessed her first outset and descent | J |
| Adventuring on an unknown element | K |
| From thence she bore her master safe and free | G |
| From danger and alarm through many a sea | G |
| Nor ever once was known to lag behind | L |
| Foremost on every tack with every wind | L |
| At last to this fair inland lake she says | A |
| She came to pass the remnant of her days | B |
| Leaving no debt due to the Deities | E |
| For vows preferred in danger on the seas | E |
| Clear of incumbrance therefore and all other | M |
| Contentious claims to Castor or his brother | M |
| As a free gift and offering she devotes | N |
| Herself as long as she survives and floats | N |
Gaius Valerius Catullus
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