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The Ballad Of Iskander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Aflatun and Aristu and King Iskander	A
Are Plato Aristotle Alexander	A
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Sultan Iskander sat him down	B
On his golden throne in his golden crown	B
And shouted Wine and flute girls three	A
And the Captain ho of my ships at sea	A
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He drank his bowl of wine he kept	C
The flute girls dancing till they wept	C
Praised and kissed their painted lips	D
And turned to the Captain of All his Ships	D
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And cried O Lord of my Ships that go	E
From the Persian Gulf to the Pits of Snow	E
Inquire for men unknown to man	F
Said Sultan Iskander of Yoonistan	F
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Daroosh is dead and I am King	G
Of Everywhere and Everything	G
Yet leagues and leagues away for sure	A
The lion hearted dream of war	A
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Admiral I command you sail	H
Take you a ship of silver mail	H
And fifty sailors young and bold	I
And stack provision deep in the hold	I
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And seek out twenty men that know	F
All babel tongues which flaunt and flow	F
And stay Impress those learned two	J
Old Aflatun and Aristu	I
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And set your prow South western ways	K
A thousand bright and dimpling days	K
And find me lion hearted Lords	L
With breasts to feed Our rusting swords	L
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The Captain of the Ships bowed low	F
Sir he replied I will do so	F
And down he rode to the harbour mouth	M
To choose a boat to carry him South	M
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And he launched a ship of silver mail	H
With fifty lads to hoist the sail	H
And twenty wise all tongues they knew	J
And Aflatun and Aristu	I
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There had not dawned the second day	I
But the glittering galleon sailed away	I
And through the night like one great bell	N
The marshalled armies sang farewell	N
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In twenty days the silver ship	O
Had passed the Isle of Serendip	O
And made the flat Araunian coasts	P
Inhabited at noon by Ghosts	P
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In thirty days the ship was far	A
Beyond the land of Calcobar	A
Where men drink Dead Men's Blood for wine	F
And dye their beards alizarine	F
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But on the hundredth day there came	Q
Storm with his windy wings aflame	Q
And drave them out to that Lone Sea	A
Whose shores are near Eternity	A
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For seven years and seven years	R
Sailed those forgotten mariners	S
Nor could they spy on either hand	I
The faintest level of good red land	I
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Bird or fish they saw not one	F
There swam no ship beside their own	F
And day night long the lilied Deep	O
Lay round them with its flowers asleep	O
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The beams began to warp and crack	T
The silver plates turned filthy black	T
And drooping down on the carven rails	U
Hung those once lovely silken sails	U
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And all the great ship's crew who were	A
Such noble lads to do and dare	A
Grew old and tired of the changeless sky	V
And laid them down on the deck to die	V
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And they who spake all tongues there be	A
Made antics with solemnity	A
Or closely huddled each to each	W
Talked ribald in a foreign speech	W
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And Aflatun and Aristu	A
Let their Beards grow and their Beards grew	A
Round and about the mainmast tree	A
Where they stood still and watched the sea	A
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And day by day their Captain grey	A
Knelt on the rotting poop to pray	A
And yet despite ten thousand prayers	X
They saw no ship that was not theirs	X
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When thrice the seven years had passed	A
They saw a ship a ship at last	A
Untarnished glowed its silver mail	H
Windless bellied its silken sail	H
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With a shout the grizzled sailors rose	Y
Cursing the years of sick repose	Y
And they who spake in tongues unknown	F
Gladly reverted to their own	F
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The Captain leapt and left his prayers	X
And hastened down the dust dark stairs	X
And taking to hand a brazen Whip	O
He woke to life the long dead ship	O
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But Aflatun and Aristu	A
Who had no work that they could do	A
Gazed at the stranger Ship and Sea	A
With their beards around the mainmast tree	A
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Nearer and nearer the new boat came	Q
Till the hands cried out on the old ship's shame	Q
Silken sail to a silver boat	A
We too shone when we first set float	A
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Swifter and swifter the bright boat sped	A
But the hands spake thin like men long dead	A
How striking like that boat were we	A
In the days sweet days when we put to sea	A
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The ship all black and the ship all white	A
Met like the meeting of day and night	A
Met and there lay serene dark green	F
A twilight yard of the sea between	F
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And the twenty masters of foreign speech	W
Of every tongue they knew tried each	W
Smiling the silver Captain heard	A
But shook his head and said no word	A
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Then Aflatun and Aristu	A
Addressed the silver Lord anew	A
Speaking their language of Yoonistan	A
Like countrymen to a countryman	A
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And Whence they cried O Sons of Pride	A
Sail you the dark eternal tide	A
Lie your halls to the South or North	Z
And who is the King that sent you forth	Z
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We live replied that Lord with a smile	A2
A mile beyond the millionth mile	A2
We know not South and we know not North	Z
And SULTAN ISKANDER sent us forth	Z
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Said Aristu to Aflatun	A
Surely our King despondent soon	A
Has sent this second ship to find	A
Unconquered tracts of humankind	A
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But Aflatun turned round on him	B2
Laughing a bitter laugh and grim	B2
Alas he said O Aristu	A
A white weak thin old fool are you	A
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And does yon silver Ship appear	A
As she had journeyed twenty year	A
And has that silver Captain's face	C2
A mortal or Immortal grace	C2
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Theirs is the land as well I know	A
Where live the Shapes of Things Below	A
Theirs is the country where they keep	O
The Images men see in Sleep	O
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Theirs is the Land beyond the Door	A
And theirs the old ideal shore	A
They steer our ship behold our crew	A
Ideal and our Captain too	A
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And lo beside that mainmast tree	A
Two tall and shining forms I see	A
And they are what we ought to be	A
Yet we are they and they are we	A
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He spake and some young Zephyr stirred	A
The two ships touched no sound was heard	A
The Black Ship crumbled into air	A
Only the Phantom Ship was there	A
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And a great cry rang round the sky	V
Of glorious singers sweeping by	V
And calm and fair on waves that shone	A
The Silver Ship sailed on and on	A