Ode For A Master Mariner Ashore Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDEFD GGHHIJJI KKLLMNNM IIOOJPPJ QQRRISSI TTUUVWXV YYCCWZZW A2A2B2B2C2D2D2C2| A | |
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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| Thou friend so long withdrawn so deaf so dim | T |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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