Ode For A Master Mariner Ashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDEFD GGHHIJJI KKLLMNNM IIOOJPPJ QQRRISSI TTUUVWXV YYCCWZZW A2A2B2B2C2D2D2C2

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THERE in his room whene er the moon looks inB
And silvers now a shell and now a finB
And o er his chart glides like an argosyC
Quiet and old sits heC
Danger he hath grown homesick for thy smileD
Where hidest thou the while heart s boastE
Strange face of beauty sought and lostF
Star face that lured him out from boyhood s isleD
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Blown clear from dull indoors his dreams beholdG
Night water smoke and sparkle as of oldG
The taffrail lurch the sheets triumphant tossH
Their phosphor flowers acrossH
Towards ocean s either rim the long exiledI
Wears on till stunted cedars throwJ
A lace like shadow over snowJ
Or tropic fountains wash their agates wildI
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Awhile play up and down the briny sparK
Odors of Surinam and ZanzibarK
Till blithely thence he ploughs in visions newL
The Labradorian blueL
All homeless hurricanes about him breakM
The purples of spent day he seesN
From Samos to the HebridesN
And drowned men dancing darkly in his wakeM
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Where the small deadly foam caps well descriedI
Top tier on tier the hundred mountained tideI
Away and far away his pride is borneO
Riding the noisy mornO
Plunges and preens her wings and laughs to knowJ
The helm and tightening halyards stillP
Follow the urging of his willP
And scoff at sullen earth a league belowJ
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Mischance hath barred him from his heirdom highQ
And shackled him with many an inland tieQ
And of his only wisdom made a jibeR
Amid an alien tribeR
No wave abroad but moans his fallen stateI
The trade wind ranges now the trade wind roarsS
Why is it on a yellowing page he poresS
Ah why this hawser fast to a garden gateI
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Thou friend so long withdrawn so deaf so dimT
Familiar Danger O forget not himT
Repeat of thine evangel yet the wholeU
Unto his subject soulU
Who suffers no such palsy of her drouthV
Nor hath so tamely worn her chainW
But she may know that voice againX
And shake the reefs with answer of her mouthV
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O give him back before his passion failY
The singing cordage and the hollow sailY
And level with those aged eyes let beC
The bright unsteady seaC
And move like any film from off his brainW
The pasture wall the boughs that runZ
Their evening arches to the sunZ
The hamlet spire across the sown champaignW
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And on the shut space and the trivial hourA2
Turn the great floods and to thy spousal bowerA2
With rapt arrest and solemn loiteringB2
Him whom thou lovedst bringB2
That he thy faithful one with praising lipC2
Not having at the last less graceD2
Of thee than had his roving raceD2
Sum up his strength to perish with a shipC2

Louise Imogen Guiney



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