The Explorer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBCDEFFDGEHIJKHJK K LMNNOMLPPEOQRMRIEIME K FFMMSS| Dearest when I left your side | A |
| I stood a moment hesitating | B |
| And plunged The boiling tide | A |
| Of darkness took me and down I went | C |
| Swift as a bird with folded wing | B |
| And upward sent | C |
| The bubbles of my vital breath | D |
| That shuddered from my secret deeps | E |
| To freedom and light | F |
| Then dimly on my sight | F |
| Opened the still abode of living death | D |
| Amid the mire | G |
| In which invisibly sightless horror creeps | E |
| Sat each intent on his own woe | H |
| The host that burns with inward fire | I |
| Crowded like monuments of memorial stone | J |
| Beneath a pitchy sky | K |
| Where even the flash of tempest dare not show | H |
| Yet each of them alone | J |
| And each was I | K |
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| II | K |
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| Breathless I struggled up | L |
| As if the gloom had arms to clutch at me | M |
| And drag and hold | N |
| Until the daylight s gold | N |
| Shook faintly above my dizzy head | O |
| And parted suddenly that I might see | M |
| The sky a sheltering cup | L |
| Of hopeful azure and your eyes of blue | P |
| One promise and yet two | P |
| Of harbouring bliss | E |
| And your lips parted and said | O |
| Shall not we twain | Q |
| Find joy upon joy on earth | R |
| Together and see | M |
| In the kinship of all that has birth | R |
| From the mutual reach of desire | I |
| A joy beyond this | E |
| A fire at the heart of the fire | I |
| And we clung till our spirit was free | M |
| As the flame of a kiss | E |
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| III | K |
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| So we soared and the earth fell away and the region of night | F |
| Was melted in limitless day of ineffable light | F |
| Till the myriad souls of the dead were united as we | M |
| Themselves and yet merged in the spread of an infinite sea | M |
| The joy that is life and around us below and above | S |
| The One that all lovers have found our eternity Love | S |
John Le Gay Brereton
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