Evanescence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHII JKLLMM DDNNOO PPQQFF| Passing ships Passing ships | A |
| The white foam sparkling at your lips | A |
| And countless jewels in your wake | B |
| Proclaim your progress o'er the lake | B |
| While on your decks a smiling throng | C |
| Surveys this realm of sun and song | C |
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| Slipping by Slipping by | D |
| O'er waves that duplicate the sky | D |
| I watch you daily come and go | E |
| But rarely is there one I know | E |
| Of all who at your railings stand | F |
| To view with joy this storied land | F |
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| On ye pass On ye pass | G |
| At times I follow through my glass | G |
| Your silent course from sunset light | H |
| To meet the dusky veil of night | H |
| As swiftly round the curving shore | I |
| Glide faces I shall see no more | I |
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| Sailing on Sailing on | J |
| The transient voyagers now are gone | K |
| Yet though the hills their features hide | L |
| One memory of them will abide | L |
| The thought of their enraptured gaze | M |
| In this the gem of Larian bays | M |
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| Gliding by Gliding by | D |
| Why is it that I look and sigh | D |
| What makes my heart thus vaguely yearn | N |
| For strangers who will ne'er return | N |
| I would not really have them stay | O |
| Yet grieve to see them fade away | O |
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| Hail farewell Hail farewell | P |
| Those passing steamers seem to tell | P |
| That all ships whether slow or fast | Q |
| Will cross life's little bay at last | Q |
| While we who linger on the strand | F |
| Must daily mourn some vanished hand | F |
John L. Stoddard
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