Crossing The Tropics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAAB AA CACCA DDEFEEF AA| From The Saya y Manto | A |
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| While now the Pole Star sinks from sight | A |
| The Southern Cross it climbs the sky | B |
| But losing thee my love my light | A |
| O bride but for one bridal night | A |
| The loss no rising joys supply | B |
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| Love love the Trade Winds urge abaft | A |
| And thee from thee they steadfast waft | A |
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| By day the blue and silver sea | C |
| And chime of waters blandly fanned | A |
| Nor these nor Gama's stars to me | C |
| May yield delight since still for thee | C |
| I long as Gama longed for land | A |
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| I yearn I yearn reverting turn | D |
| My heart it streams in wake astern | D |
| When cut by slanting sleet we swoop | E |
| Where raves the world's inverted year | F |
| If roses all your porch shall loop | E |
| Not less your heart for me will droop | E |
| Doubling the world's last outpost drear | F |
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| O love O love these oceans vast | A |
| Love love it is as death were past | A |
Herman Melville
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