A Western Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FAFA GHGH IDIE JAJA AKAK| My friend the Sun like all my friends | A |
| Inconstant lovely far away | B |
| Is out and bright and condescends | A |
| To glory in our holiday | B |
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| A furious march with him I'll go | C |
| And race him in the Western train | D |
| And wake the hills of long ago | C |
| And swim the Devon sea again | E |
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| I have done foolishly to head | F |
| The footway of the false moonbeams | A |
| To light my lamp and call the dead | F |
| And read their long black printed dreams | A |
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| I have done foolishly to dwell | G |
| With Fear upon her desert isle | H |
| To take my shadowgraph to Hell | G |
| And then to hope the shades would smile | H |
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| And since the light must fail me soon | I |
| But faster faster Western train | D |
| Proud meadows of the afternoon | I |
| I have remembered you again | E |
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| And I'll go seek through moor and dale | J |
| A flower that wastrel winds caress | A |
| The bud is red and the leaves pale | J |
| The name of it Forgetfulness | A |
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| Then like the old and happy hills | A |
| With frozen veins and fires outrun | K |
| I'll wait the day when darkness kills | A |
| My brother and good friend the Sun | K |
James Elroy Flecker
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