Harbor Moonrise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDD EEEFFFF GGGHHII BBBFFJJ| There is never a wind to sing o'er the sea | A |
| On its dimpled bosom that holdeth in fee | A |
| Wealth of silver and magicry | B |
| And the harbor is like to an ebon cup | C |
| With mother o' pearl to the lips lined up | C |
| And brimmed with the wine of entranced delight | D |
| Purple and rare from the flagon of night | D |
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| Lo in the east is a glamor and gleam | E |
| Like waves that lap on the shores of dream | E |
| Or voice their lure in a poet's theme | E |
| And behind the curtseying fisher boats | F |
| The barge of the rising moon upfloats | F |
| The pilot ship over unknown seas | F |
| Of treasure laden cloud argosies | F |
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| Ere ever she drifts from the ocean's rim | G |
| Out from the background of shadows dim | G |
| Stealeth a boat o'er her golden rim | G |
| Noiselessly swiftly it swayeth by | H |
| Into the bourne of enchanted sky | H |
| Like a fairy shallop that seeks the strand | I |
| Of a far and uncharted fairyland | I |
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| Now ere the sleeping winds may stir | B |
| Send O my heart a wish with her | B |
| Like to a venturous mariner | B |
| For who knoweth but that on an elfin sea | F |
| She may meet the bark that is sailing to thee | F |
| And winging thy message across the foam | J |
| May hasten the hour when thy ship comes home | J |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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