The Sea-voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DCABEF GHFI FHFJFFK ALIM NFOPQBBFI FAHAAQ IIRILI| MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden | A |
| Waiting fav'ring winds I sat with true friends round me | B |
| Pledging me to patience and to courage | C |
| In the haven | A |
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| And they spoke thus with impatience twofold | D |
| Gladly pray we for thy rapid passage | C |
| Gladly for thy happy voyage fortune | A |
| In the distant world is waiting for thee | B |
| In our arms thoult find thy prize and love too | E |
| When returning | F |
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| And when morning came arose an uproar | G |
| And the sailors' joyous shouts awoke us | H |
| All was stirring all was living moving | F |
| Bent on sailing with the first kind zephyr | I |
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| And the sails soon in the breeze are swelling | F |
| And the sun with fiery love invites us | H |
| Fill'd the sails are clouds on high are floating | F |
| On the shore each friend exulting raises | J |
| Songs of hope in giddy joy expecting | F |
| Joy the voyage through as on the morn of sailing | F |
| And the earliest starry nights so radiant | K |
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| But by God sent changing winds ere long he's driven | A |
| Sideways from the course he had intended | L |
| And he feigns as though he would surrender | I |
| While he gently striveth to outwit them | M |
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| To his goal e'en when thus press'd still faithful | N |
| But from out the damp grey distance rising | F |
| Softly now the storm proclaims its advent | O |
| Presseth down each bird upon the waters | P |
| Presseth down the throbbing hearts of mortals | Q |
| And it cometh At its stubborn fury | B |
| Wisely ev'ry sail the seaman striketh | B |
| With the anguish laden ball are sporting | F |
| Wind and water | I |
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| And on yonder shore are gather'd standing | F |
| Friends and lovers trembling for the bold one | A |
| Why alas remain'd he here not with us | H |
| Ah the tempest Cast away by fortune | A |
| Must the good one perish in this fashion | A |
| Might not he perchance Ye great immortals | Q |
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| Yet he like a man stands by his rudder | I |
| With the bark are sporting wind and water | I |
| Wind and water sport not with his bosom | R |
| On the fierce deep looks he as a master | I |
| In his gods or shipwreck'd or safe landed | L |
| Trusting ever | I |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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