Outward Bound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCC DDDEFFFE CCCGHHHG IIIJKKKJ BBBCLLLC MMMNOOON OOOPBBBP QQQORRRO| HORACE III | A |
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| Quid fles Asterie quem tibi candidi | B |
| Primo restituent vere Favonii | C |
| Gygen | C |
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| - | |
| Come Laura patience Time and Spring | D |
| Your absent Arthur back shall bring | D |
| Enriched with many an Indian thing | D |
| Once more to woo you | E |
| Him neither wind nor wave can check | F |
| Who cramped beneath the Simla's deck | F |
| Still constant though with stiffened neck | F |
| Makes verses to you | E |
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| Would it were wave and wind alone | C |
| The terrors of the torrid zone | C |
| The indiscriminate cyclone | C |
| A man might parry | G |
| But only faith or triple brass | H |
| Can help the outward bound to pass | H |
| Safe through that eastward faring class | H |
| Who sail to marry | G |
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| For him fond mothers stout and fair | I |
| Ascend the tortuous cabin stair | I |
| Only to hold around his chair | I |
| Insidious sessions | J |
| For him the eyes of daughters droop | K |
| Across the plate of handed soup | K |
| Suggesting seats upon the poop | K |
| And soft confessions | J |
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| Nor are these all his pains nor most | B |
| Romancing captains cease to boast | B |
| Loud majors leave their whist to roast | B |
| The youthful griffin | C |
| All all with pleased persistence show | L |
| His fate remote unfriended slow | L |
| His melancholy bungalow | L |
| His lonely tiffin | C |
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| In vain Let doubts assail the weak | M |
| Unmoved and calm as Adam's Peak | M |
| Your blameless Arthur hears them speak | M |
| Of woes that wait him | N |
| Naught can subdue his soul secure | O |
| Arthur will come again be sure | O |
| Though matron shrewd and maid mature | O |
| Conspire to mate him | N |
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| But Laura on your side forbear | O |
| To greet with too impressed an air | O |
| A certain youth with chestnut hair | O |
| A youth unstable | P |
| Albeit none more skilled can guide | B |
| The frail canoe on Thamis tide | B |
| Or trimmer footed lighter glide | B |
| Through Guards or Mabel | P |
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| Be warned in time Without a trace | Q |
| Of acquiescence on your face | Q |
| Hear in the waltz's breathing space | Q |
| His airy patter | O |
| Avoid the confidential nook | R |
| If when you sing you find his look | R |
| Grow tender close your music book | R |
| And end the matter | O |
Henry Austin Dobson
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