Lemnos Harbour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DEFFDE GHIGH JKLLJK BMNNBM BBBBBB OBBB OB| The island sleeps but it has no delight | A |
| For em to whom that sleep has been unkind | B |
| My thoughts are long of what seems long ago | C |
| And long too are my dreams I do not know | C |
| These trailing glories of the star strewn night | A |
| Or the slow sough of the wind | B |
| - | |
| I hear the rattle of the moving car | D |
| The children crying in the lighted street | E |
| I walk along the same old asphalt way | F |
| I see the church I hear the organ play | F |
| I see the hills I wandered on afar | D |
| And spots of rain at my feet | E |
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| I see the dust strewn hedge the latched gate | G |
| The gravelled path with roses either side | H |
| The cedar tree my mother s window pane | I |
| I see the place where I sat long and late | G |
| By the trellis deep and wide | H |
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| The red Virginia crumbles at the wall | J |
| The bed is bare where winter s snow drops grew | K |
| I feel my dog come licking at my hand | L |
| I pause awhile beside the door I stand | L |
| And hear the well known footsteps softly fall | J |
| And the voices that I knew | K |
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| I slowly creep and peep beneath the blind | B |
| My father reads his book within his chair | M |
| Some children play their game of dominoes | N |
| My mother sits beside the fire and sews | N |
| Her head is bowed I know her eyes are kind | B |
| By the grey lines in her hair | M |
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| I tap the pane to see those tears unshed | B |
| I see all turn and watch them sadly stirred | B |
| By the sound and peer to see my face without | B |
| They see and smile I hear no welcome shout | B |
| They sit and gaze as they that see the dead | B |
| But no one says a word | B |
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| The island sleeps May sleep come soon to me | O |
| And lull these dreams within my shaken mind | B |
| These dreams that tell me I have seen the last | B |
| of those I left so loved so in the past | B |
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| I hear the murmur of the moving sea | O |
| And the murmur of the wind | B |
Leon Gellert
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