Argonauts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD ECEC CFCF GHGH IJK LCLC CMCM| With argosies of dawn he sails | A |
| And triremes of the dusk | B |
| The Seas of Song whereon the gales | A |
| Are myths that trail wild musk | B |
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| He hears the hail of Siren bands | C |
| From headlands sunset kissed | D |
| The Lotus eaters wave pale hands | C |
| Within a land of mist | D |
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| For many a league he hears the roar | E |
| Of the Symplegades | C |
| And through the far foam of its shore | E |
| The Isle of Sappho sees | C |
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| All day he looks with hazy lids | C |
| At gods who cleave the deep | F |
| All night he hears the Nereids | C |
| Sing their wild hearts asleep | F |
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| When heaven thunders overhead | G |
| And hell upheaves the Vast | H |
| Dim faces of the ocean's dead | G |
| Gaze at him from each mast | H |
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| He but repeats the oracle | I |
| That bade him first set sail | J |
| And cheers his soul with 'All is well | K |
| Go on I will not fail ' | - |
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| Behold he sails no earthly bark | L |
| And on no earthly sea | C |
| Who down the years into the dark | L |
| Divine of destiny | C |
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| Holds to his purpose ships of Greece | C |
| Ideal steered afar | M |
| For whom awaits the Golden Fleece | C |
| The fame that is his star | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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