Gold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEEAABFFBGGEEF FBBEEEEBBEEHIEEJJKKE EEEFFEFBF| We rovers bold | A |
| To the land of Gold | A |
| Over the bowling billows are gliding | B |
| Eager to toil | C |
| For the golden spoil | C |
| And every hardship biding | B |
| See See | D |
| Before our prows' resistless dashes | E |
| The gold fish fly in golden flashes | E |
| 'Neath a sun of gold | A |
| We rovers bold | A |
| On the golden land are gaining | B |
| And every night | F |
| We steer aright | F |
| By golden stars unwaning | B |
| All fires burn a golden glare | G |
| No locks so bright as golden hair | G |
| All orange groves have golden gushings | E |
| All mornings dawn with golden flushings | E |
| In a shower of gold say fables old | F |
| A maiden was won by the god of gold | F |
| In golden goblets wine is beaming | B |
| On golden couches kings are dreaming | B |
| The Golden Rule dries many tears | E |
| The Golden Number rules the spheres | E |
| Gold gold it is that sways the nations | E |
| Gold gold the center of all rotations | E |
| On golden axles worlds are turning | B |
| With phosphorescence seas are burning | B |
| All fire flies flame with golden gleamings | E |
| Gold hunters' hearts with golden dreamings | E |
| With golden arrows kings are slain | H |
| With gold we'll buy a freeman's name | I |
| In toilsome trades for scanty earnings | E |
| At home we've slaved with stifled yearnings | E |
| No light no hope Oh heavy woe | J |
| When nights fled fast and days dragged slow | J |
| But joyful now with eager eye | K |
| Fast to the Promised Land we fly | K |
| Where in deep mines | E |
| The treasure shines | E |
| Or down in beds of golden streams | E |
| The gold flakes glance in golden gleams | E |
| How we long to sift | F |
| That yellow drift | F |
| Rivers Rivers cease your goings | E |
| Sand bars rise and stay the tide | F |
| 'Till we've gained the golden flowing | B |
| And in the golden haven ride | F |
Herman Melville
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