Mariners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCCC DD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMEE NN OOPP LLCC QRSS TTCC UU CCDD VV WWXX YYLLZZLL UUA2B2C2C2C2VVD2W D2WWSSWWWWD2D2

A beardless crew we launched our little boatA
Laughed at its lightness joyed to see it floatA
Veer in the wind and with the freshening galeB
Bend o'er the foaming prow the swollen sailB
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No fears were ours within that stanch built barqueC
No fears were ours 'though all the west was darkC
And overhead were unknown stars the ringC
Of ocean sailless and no bird a wingC
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Yet there was light radiance that dimmed the starsD
Dancing like bubbles in Night's sapphire jarsD
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We knew not what only adown the skiesE
A shape that led us with sidereal eyesE
Brow bound and shod with elemental fireF
Beckoning us onward like the god DesireF
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Brisk blew the breeze and through the starry gloamG
Flung from our prow flew white the furrowed foamG
Long long we sailed and now have reached our goalH
Come let us rest us here and call the rollH
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How few we are Alas alas how fewI
How many perished Every storm that blewI
Swept from our deck or from our staggering mastJ
Some well loved comrade in the boiling vastJ
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Wildly we saw them sink beneath our prowK
Helpless to aid pallid of face and browK
Lost in the foam we saw them sink or fadeL
Beneath the tempest's rolling cannonadeL
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They sank but where they sank above the waveM
A corposant danced a flame that marked their graveM
And o'er the flame whereon were fixed our eyesE
An albatross huge in volcanic skiesE
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They died but not in vain their stubborn strifeN
The zeal that held them onward great of lifeN
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They too are with us they in spite of deathO
Have reached here first Upon our brows their breathO
Breathes softly vaguely sweetly as the breezeP
From isles of spice in summer haunted seasP
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From palaces and pinnacles of mistL
The sunset builds in heaven's amethystL
Beyond yon headland where the billows breakC
Perhaps they beckon now the winds that shakeC
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These tamarisks that never bowed to stormQ
Haply are but their voices filled with charmR
Bidding us rest from labor toil no moreS
Draw up our vessel on the happy shoreS
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And of the lotus of content and peaceT
Growing far inland eat and never ceaseT
To dream the dreams that keep the heart still youngC
Hearing forever how the foam is flungC
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Beneath the cliff forgetting all life's careU
Easing the soul of all its long despairU
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Let us forget how once within that barqueC
Like some swift eagle sweeping through the darkC
We weighed the sun we weighed the farthest starsD
Traced the dim continents of fiery MarsD
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Measured the vapory planets whose long runV
Takes centuries to gird their glimmering sunV
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Let us forget how oft the crystal mountainsW
Of the white moon we searched and plumbed her fountainsW
That hale the waters of the onian deepX
In ebb and flow and in her power keepX
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Let us remember her but as a gemY
A mighty pearl placed in Night's anademY
Let us forget how once we pierced the floodL
Fathorned its groves of coral red as bloodL
Branching and blooming underneath our keelZ
Through which like birds the nautilus and eelZ
The rainbowed conch and irised fishes sweptL
And where the sea snake like a long weed sleptL
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Here let us dream our dreams let Helen bareU
Her white breast for us and let Dido shareU
Her rich feast with us or let LalageA2
Laugh in our eyes as once all lovinglyB2
She laughed for Flaccus We are done with allC2
The lusts of life its loves are ours Let fallC2
The Catilines the C sars and in GaulC2
Their legions perish And let Phillip's sonV
In Ammon's desert die and never a oneV
Lead back to Greece of all his conquering lineD2
From gemmed HydaspesW
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Here we set our shrineD2
Here on this headland templed of God's peaksW
Where Beauty only to our worship speaksW
Her mighty truths gazing beyond the shoreS
Into the heart of God her eyes a doorS
Wherethrough we see the dreams the mysteriesW
That grew to form in the Art that once was GreeceW
Making them live once more for us the shapesW
That filled the woods the mountains and the capesW
Of Hellas Dryad Oread and FaunD2
Naiad and Nereid and all the hosts of DawnD2

Madison Julius Cawein



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