Haven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHJ KBKB LGLG MNMN OGOG PQPQ RSRS TUTU| Here in mine old time harbourage installed | A |
| Lulled by the murmurous hum of London's traffic | B |
| To that full calm which may be justly called | A |
| Seraphic | B |
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| I praise the gods and vow for my escape | C |
| From the hard grip of premature Jehannun | D |
| One golden tissued bottle of the grape | C |
| Per annum | E |
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| For on this day from Orient toils enlarged | F |
| Kneeling I kissed the parent soil at Dover | G |
| Where a huge porter in his orbit charged | F |
| Me over | G |
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| Flashed in the train by Shorncliffe's draughty camp | H |
| Gazed on the hurrying landscape's pastoral graces | I |
| Old farms and happy fields a trifle damp | H |
| In places | J |
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| Passed the grim suburbs indigent and bare | K |
| Of natural foliage but bravely flying | B |
| Frank garlandry of last week's underwear | K |
| Out drying | B |
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| And so to Town and with that blessed sight | L |
| I a poor fevered wreck forgot to shiver | G |
| Forgot to mourn the Burden of my White | L |
| Man's Liver | G |
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| And felt my bosom heave my breast expand | M |
| With thoughts too sweet too deep for empty cackle | N |
| Such thoughts as nothing but a first class Band | M |
| Could tackle | N |
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| Till from its deeps my celebrated smile | O |
| Which friends called Marvel clove my jaws asunder | G |
| Lucid intense and all men stood awhile | O |
| In wonder | G |
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| Let none approach me now for I have dined | P |
| The fire is bright Havana's choice aroma | Q |
| Infects my being with a pleasant kind | P |
| Of coma | Q |
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| Calmly I contemplate my future lot | R |
| I reconstruct the past it fails to strike me | S |
| With aught of horror pity there are not | R |
| More like me | S |
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| My bosom's lord sits lightly on my breast | T |
| The East grows dim and every hour I stuck to it | U |
| Imparts a richer brightness to the West | T |
| Good luck to it | U |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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