The Loss Of The Eurydice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FCGG CHGG GGII JJKL MMNN OOPP QQRR SSSS HHQQ CTUU QQS QQ S VVSS PPWW QQQO SSXX YYQQ KKZA2 B2B2CC QQCC SSC2C2 C2C2TC C2C2SS SSKK CCC2C2 QQC2C2 D2D2C2 D2D2E2E| Foundered March | A |
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| The Eurydice it concerned thee O Lord | B |
| Three hundred souls O alas on board | B |
| Some asleep unawakened all un | C |
| warned eleven fathoms fallen | C |
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| Where she foundered One stroke | D |
| Felled and furled them the hearts of oak | D |
| And flockbells off the aerial | E |
| Downs' forefalls beat to the burial | E |
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| For did she pride her freighted fully on | F |
| Bounden bales or a hoard of bullion | C |
| Precious passing measure | G |
| Lads and men her lade and treasure | G |
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| She had come from a cruise training seamen | C |
| Men boldboys soon to be men | H |
| Must it worst weather | G |
| Blast bole and bloom together | G |
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| No Atlantic squall overwrought her | G |
| Or rearing billow of the Biscay water | G |
| Home was hard at hand | I |
| And the blow bore from land | I |
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| And you were a liar O blue March day | J |
| Bright sun lanced fire in the heavenly bay | J |
| But what black Boreas wrecked her he | K |
| Came equipped deadly electric | L |
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| A beetling baldbright cloud thorough England | M |
| Riding there did stores not mingle and | M |
| Hailropes hustle and grind their | N |
| Heavengravel wolfsnow worlds of it wind there | N |
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| Now Carisbrook keep goes under in gloom | O |
| Now it overvaults Appledurcombe | O |
| Now near by Ventnor town | P |
| It hurls hurls off Boniface Down | P |
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| Too proud too proud what a press she bore | Q |
| Royal and all her royals wore | Q |
| Sharp with her shorten sail | R |
| Too late lost gone with the gale | R |
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| This was that fell capsize | S |
| As half she had righted and hoped to rise | S |
| Death teeming in by her portholes | S |
| Raced down decks round messes of mortals | S |
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| Then a lurch forward frigate and men | H |
| 'All hands for themselves' the cry ran then | H |
| But she who had housed them thither | Q |
| Was around them bound them or wound them with her | Q |
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| Marcus Hare high her captain | C |
| Kept to her care drowned and wrapped in | T |
| Cheer's death would follow | U |
| His charge through the champ white water in a wallow | U |
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| All under Channel to bury in a beach her | Q |
| Cheeks Right rude of feature | Q |
| He thought he heard say | S |
| 'Her commander and thou too and thou this way ' | - |
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| It is even seen time's something server | Q |
| In mankind's medley a duty swerver | Q |
| At downright 'No or yes ' | - |
| Doffs all drives full for righteousness | S |
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| Sydney Fletcher Bristol bred | V |
| Low lie his mates now on watery bed | V |
| Takes to the seas and snows | S |
| As sheer down the ship goes | S |
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| Now her afterdraught gullies him too down | P |
| Now he wrings for breath with the deathgush brown | P |
| Till a lifebelt and God's will | W |
| Lend him a lift from the sea swill | W |
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| Now he shoots short up to the round air | Q |
| Now he gasps now he gazes everywhere | Q |
| But his eye no cliff no coast or | Q |
| Mark makes in the rivelling snowstorm | O |
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| Him after an hour of wintry waves | S |
| A schooner sights with another and saves | S |
| And he boards her in Oh such joy | X |
| He has lost count what came next poor boy | X |
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| They say who saw one sea corpse cold | Y |
| He was all of lovely manly mould | Y |
| Every inch a tar | Q |
| Of the best we boast our sailors are | Q |
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| Look foot to forelock how all things suit he | K |
| Is strung by duty is strained to beauty | K |
| And brown as dawning skinned | Z |
| With brine and shine and whirling wind | A2 |
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| O his nimble finger his gnarled grip | B2 |
| Leagues leagues of seamanship | B2 |
| Slumber in these forsaken | C |
| Bones this sinew and will not waken | C |
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| He was but one like thousands more | Q |
| Day and night I deplore | Q |
| My people and born own nation | C |
| Fast foundering own generation | C |
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| I might let bygones be our curse | S |
| Of ruinous shrine no hand or worse | S |
| Robbery's hand is busy to | C2 |
| Dress hoar hallow egrave d shrines unvisited | C2 |
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| Only the breathing temple and fleet | C2 |
| Life this wildworth blown so sweet | C2 |
| These daredeaths ay this crew in | T |
| Unchrist all rolled in ruin | C |
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| Deeply surely I need to deplore it | C2 |
| Wondering why my master bore it | C2 |
| The riving off that race | S |
| So at home time was to his truth and grace | S |
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| That a starlight wender of ours would say | S |
| The marvellous Milk was Walsingham Way | S |
| And one but let be let be | K |
| More more than was will yet be | K |
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| O well wept mother have lost son | C |
| Wept wife wept sweetheart would be one | C |
| Though grief yield them no good | C2 |
| Yet shed what tears sad truelove should | C2 |
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| But to Christ lord of thunder | Q |
| Crouch lay knee by earth low under | Q |
| 'Holiest loveliest bravest | C2 |
| Save my hero O Hero savest | C2 |
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| And the prayer thou hearst me making | D2 |
| Have at the awful overtaking | D2 |
| Heard have heard and granted | C2 |
| Grace that day grace was wanted ' | - |
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| Not that hell knows redeeming | D2 |
| But for souls sunk in seeming | D2 |
| Fresh till doomfire burn all | E2 |
| Prayer shall fetch pity eternal | E |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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