The Adieu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLLMNOPOPQQRS| We part and thou art mine no more | A |
| I go through seas never sought before | A |
| Where stars unknown to our native skies | B |
| Startle the mariner's watchful eyes | B |
| Our bark shall over the waters sweep | C |
| And rouse the children of the deep | C |
| Around us 'midst the silvery spray | D |
| With glittering scales shall the dolphins play | D |
| When scarcely flutters the snowy sail | E |
| Gently waved by the whispering gale | E |
| I shall gaze in the ocean's liquid glass | F |
| And mark the hidden treasures we pass | F |
| The amber and coral groves that glow | G |
| In the sparkling sunbeams that dart below | G |
| Whose lucid and spreading boughs between | H |
| Countless flitting forms are seen | H |
| Oh could I beneath the billows dive | I |
| And in that world of splendour live | I |
| Were there a cave for thee and me | J |
| Beneath that bright and silent sea | J |
| Which waves conceal and rocks surround | K |
| Like that the Island loves found | K |
| Strange and solemn was the hour | L |
| That saw them reach that secret bower | L |
| Some love lorn seamaid's deep abode | M |
| Or palace of the ocean god | N |
| Long had Hoonga's inmost cells | O |
| Echoed to the mournful tone | P |
| Of the waves among the shells | O |
| And the winds that feebly moan | P |
| But never to music so sad so sweet | Q |
| As the vows they breathed in that lone retreat | Q |
| But ah our bark glides swiftly on | R |
| And my vision of that cave is gone | S |
Louisa Stuart Costello
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