The Finest View Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNONAPAP QRQSTUTU| Away away The plains of Ind | A |
| Have set their victim free | B |
| I give my sorrows to the wind | A |
| My sun hat to the sea | B |
| And standing with a chosen few | C |
| I watch a dying glow | D |
| The passing of the Finest View | C |
| That all the world can show | D |
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| It would not fire an artist's eye | E |
| This View whereof I sing | F |
| Poets no doubt would pass it by | E |
| As quite a common thing | F |
| The Tourist with belittling sniff | G |
| Would find no beauties there | H |
| He couldn't if he would and if | G |
| He could he wouldn't care | H |
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| Only for him that turns the back | I |
| On dark and evil days | J |
| It throws a glory down his track | I |
| That sets his heart ablaze | J |
| A charm to make the wounded whole | K |
| Which wearied eyes may draw | L |
| Luxuriously through the soul | K |
| Like cocktails through a straw | L |
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| I have seen strong men moved to tears | M |
| When gazing o'er the deep | N |
| Hard men whom I have known for years | O |
| Nor dreamt that they could weep | N |
| Even myself though stern and cold | A |
| Beyond the common line | P |
| Cannot for very joy withhold | A |
| The tribute of my brine | P |
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| Farewell farewell thou best of Views | Q |
| I leave thee to thy pain | R |
| And while I have the power to choose | Q |
| We shall not meet again | S |
| But 'mid the scenes of joy and mirth | T |
| My fancies oft will turn | U |
| Back to the Finest Sight on Earth | T |
| The Bombay Lights astern | U |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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