Santorin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEBF GHIJBKB B GLMN G G BHO GBPBQRSTGGU VB| A Legend of the gean | A |
| - | |
| 'Who are you Sea Lady | B |
| And where in the seas are we | B |
| I have too long been steering | C |
| By the flashes in your eyes | D |
| Why drops the moonlight through my heart | E |
| And why so quietly | B |
| Go the great engines of my boat | F |
| As if their souls were free ' | - |
| 'Oh ask me not bold sailor | G |
| Is not your ship a magic ship | H |
| That sails without a sail | I |
| Are not these isles the Isles of Greece | J |
| And dust upon the sea | B |
| But answer me three questions | K |
| And give me answers three | B |
| What is your ship 'A British ' | - |
| 'And where may Britain be ' | - |
| 'Oh it lies north dear lady | B |
| It is a small country ' | - |
| 'Yet you will know my lover | G |
| Though you live far away | L |
| And you will whisper where he has gone | M |
| That lily boy to look upon | N |
| And whiter than the spray ' | - |
| 'How should I know your lover | G |
| Lady of the sea ' | - |
| 'Alexander Alexander | G |
| The King of the World was he ' | - |
| 'Weep not for him dear lady | B |
| But come aboard my ship | H |
| So many years ago he died | O |
| He's dead as dead can be ' | - |
| 'O base and brutal sailor | G |
| To lie this lie to me | B |
| His mother was the foam foot | P |
| Star sparkling Aphrodite | B |
| His father was Adonis | Q |
| Who lives away in Lebanon | R |
| In stony Lebanon where blooms | S |
| His red anemone | T |
| But where is Alexander | G |
| The soldier Alexander | G |
| My golden love of olden days | U |
| The King of the world and me ' | - |
| - | |
| She sank into the moonlight | V |
| And the sea was only sea | B |
James Elroy Flecker
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