The Rice-boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGFBIB JKLKADMD DNONFPFP QRMRHSTS UVHWXYMY TZA2ZZZZZ IZHZZB2HB2 HC2B2C2MB2B2B2| I slept upon the Rice boat | A |
| That reef protected lay | B |
| At anchor where the palm trees | C |
| Infringe upon the bay | B |
| The windless air was heavy | D |
| With cinnamon and rose | E |
| The midnight calm seemed waiting | F |
| Too fateful for repose | E |
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| One joined me on the Rice boat | A |
| With wild and waving hair | G |
| Whose vivid words and laughter | H |
| Awoke the silent air | G |
| Oh beauty bare and shining | F |
| Fresh washen in the bay | B |
| One well may love by moonlight | I |
| What one would not love by day | B |
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| Above among the cordage | J |
| The night wind hardly stirred | K |
| The lapping of the ripples | L |
| Was all the sound we heard | K |
| Love reigned upon the Rice boat | A |
| And Peace controlled the sea | D |
| The spirit's consolation | M |
| The senses' ecstasy | D |
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| Though many things and mighty | D |
| Are furthered in the West | N |
| The ancient Peace has vanished | O |
| Before To day's unrest | N |
| For how among their striving | F |
| Their gold their lust their drink | P |
| Shall men find time for dreaming | F |
| Or any space to think | P |
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| Think not I scorn the Science | Q |
| That lightens human pain | R |
| Though man's reliance often | M |
| Is placed on it in vain | R |
| Maybe the long endeavour | H |
| The patience and the strife | S |
| May some day solve the riddle | T |
| The Mystery of Life | S |
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| Perchance I do not value | U |
| Things Western as I ought | V |
| The trains that take us whither | H |
| The ships that reach what port | W |
| To me it seems but chaos | X |
| Of greed and haste and rage | Y |
| The endless aimless motion | M |
| Of squirrels in a cage | Y |
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| Here where some ruined temple | T |
| In solitude decays | Z |
| With carven walls still hallowed | A2 |
| With prayers of bygone days | Z |
| Here where the coral outcrops | Z |
| Make flowers of the sea | Z |
| The olden Peace yet lingers | Z |
| In hushed serenity | Z |
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| Ah silent silver moonlight | I |
| Whose charm impartial falls | Z |
| On tanks of sacred water | H |
| And squalid city walls | Z |
| Whose mystic whiteness hallows | Z |
| The lowest and the least | B2 |
| To thee men owe the glamour | H |
| That draws them to the East | B2 |
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| And as this azure water | H |
| Unflecked hy wave or foam | C2 |
| Conceals in its tranquillity | B2 |
| The dreaded white shark's home | C2 |
| So if love be illusion | M |
| I ask the dream to stay | B2 |
| Content to love by moonlight | B2 |
| What I might not love by day | B2 |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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