The Island Of Skyros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHI JFJFKLKLMNMNOO| Here where we stood together we three men | A |
| Before the war had swept us to the East | B |
| Three thousand miles away I stand again | A |
| And hear the bells and breathe and go to feast | B |
| We trod the same path to the selfsame place | C |
| Yet here I stand having beheld their graves | D |
| Skyros whose shadows the great seas erase | C |
| And Seddul Bahr that ever more blood craves | D |
| So since we communed here our bones have been | E |
| Nearer perhaps than they again will be | F |
| Earth and the worldwide battle lie between | G |
| Death lies between and friend destroying sea | F |
| Yet here a year ago we talked and stood | H |
| As I stnad now with pulses beating blood | I |
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| I saw her like a shadow on the sky | J |
| In the last light a blur upon the sea | F |
| Then the gale's darkness put the shadow by | J |
| But from one grave that island talked to me | F |
| And in the midnight in the breaking storm | K |
| I saw its blackness and a blinking light | L |
| And thought So death obscures your gentle form | K |
| So memory strives to make the darkness bright | L |
| And in that heap of rocks your body lies | M |
| Part of the island till the planet ends | N |
| My gentle comrade beautiful and wise | M |
| Part of this crag this bitter surge offends | N |
| While I who pass a little obscure thing | O |
| War with this force and breathe and am its king | O |
John Masefield
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