Elegiac Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFG CDBB FHAB| Dark is the morning with mist in the narrow mouth of the harbor | A |
| Motionless lies the sea under its curtain of cloud | B |
| Dreamily glimmer the sails of ships on the distant horizon | C |
| Like to the towers of a town built on the verge of the sea | D |
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| Slowly and stately and still they sail forth into the ocean | C |
| With them sail my thoughts over the limitless deep | E |
| Farther and farther away borne on by unsatisfied longings | F |
| Unto Hesperian isles unto Ausonian shores | G |
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| Now they have vanished away have disappeared in the ocean | C |
| Sunk are the towers of the town into the depths of the sea | D |
| AU have vanished but those that moored in the neighboring roadstead | B |
| Sailless at anchor ride looming so large in the mist | B |
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| Vanished too are the thoughts the dim unsatisfied longings | F |
| Sunk are the turrets of cloud into the ocean of dreams | H |
| While in a haven of rest my heart is riding at anchor | A |
| Held by the chains of love held by the anchors of trust | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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