Ode For A Master Mariner Ashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDEFD GGHHIJJI KKLLMNNM IIOOJPPJ QQRRISSI TTUUVWXV YYCCWZZW A2A2B2B2C2D2D2C2A | |
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THERE in his room whene er the moon looks in | B |
And silvers now a shell and now a fin | B |
And o er his chart glides like an argosy | C |
Quiet and old sits he | C |
Danger he hath grown homesick for thy smile | D |
Where hidest thou the while heart s boast | E |
Strange face of beauty sought and lost | F |
Star face that lured him out from boyhood s isle | D |
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Blown clear from dull indoors his dreams behold | G |
Night water smoke and sparkle as of old | G |
The taffrail lurch the sheets triumphant toss | H |
Their phosphor flowers across | H |
Towards ocean s either rim the long exiled | I |
Wears on till stunted cedars throw | J |
A lace like shadow over snow | J |
Or tropic fountains wash their agates wild | I |
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Awhile play up and down the briny spar | K |
Odors of Surinam and Zanzibar | K |
Till blithely thence he ploughs in visions new | L |
The Labradorian blue | L |
All homeless hurricanes about him break | M |
The purples of spent day he sees | N |
From Samos to the Hebrides | N |
And drowned men dancing darkly in his wake | M |
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Where the small deadly foam caps well descried | I |
Top tier on tier the hundred mountained tide | I |
Away and far away his pride is borne | O |
Riding the noisy morn | O |
Plunges and preens her wings and laughs to know | J |
The helm and tightening halyards still | P |
Follow the urging of his will | P |
And scoff at sullen earth a league below | J |
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Mischance hath barred him from his heirdom high | Q |
And shackled him with many an inland tie | Q |
And of his only wisdom made a jibe | R |
Amid an alien tribe | R |
No wave abroad but moans his fallen state | I |
The trade wind ranges now the trade wind roars | S |
Why is it on a yellowing page he pores | S |
Ah why this hawser fast to a garden gate | I |
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Thou friend so long withdrawn so deaf so dim | T |
Familiar Danger O forget not him | T |
Repeat of thine evangel yet the whole | U |
Unto his subject soul | U |
Who suffers no such palsy of her drouth | V |
Nor hath so tamely worn her chain | W |
But she may know that voice again | X |
And shake the reefs with answer of her mouth | V |
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O give him back before his passion fail | Y |
The singing cordage and the hollow sail | Y |
And level with those aged eyes let be | C |
The bright unsteady sea | C |
And move like any film from off his brain | W |
The pasture wall the boughs that run | Z |
Their evening arches to the sun | Z |
The hamlet spire across the sown champaign | W |
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And on the shut space and the trivial hour | A2 |
Turn the great floods and to thy spousal bower | A2 |
With rapt arrest and solemn loitering | B2 |
Him whom thou lovedst bring | B2 |
That he thy faithful one with praising lip | C2 |
Not having at the last less grace | D2 |
Of thee than had his roving race | D2 |
Sum up his strength to perish with a ship | C2 |
Louise Imogen Guiney
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