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 D2WWSSWWWWD2D2A beardless crew we launched our little boat | A |
Laughed at its lightness joyed to see it float | A |
Veer in the wind and with the freshening gale | B |
Bend o'er the foaming prow the swollen sail | B |
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No fears were ours within that stanch built barque | C |
No fears were ours 'though all the west was dark | C |
And overhead were unknown stars the ring | C |
Of ocean sailless and no bird a wing | C |
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Yet there was light radiance that dimmed the stars | D |
Dancing like bubbles in Night's sapphire jars | D |
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We knew not what only adown the skies | E |
A shape that led us with sidereal eyes | E |
Brow bound and shod with elemental fire | F |
Beckoning us onward like the god Desire | F |
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Brisk blew the breeze and through the starry gloam | G |
Flung from our prow flew white the furrowed foam | G |
Long long we sailed and now have reached our goal | H |
Come let us rest us here and call the roll | H |
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How few we are Alas alas how few | I |
How many perished Every storm that blew | I |
Swept from our deck or from our staggering mast | J |
Some well loved comrade in the boiling vast | J |
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Wildly we saw them sink beneath our prow | K |
Helpless to aid pallid of face and brow | K |
Lost in the foam we saw them sink or fade | L |
Beneath the tempest's rolling cannonade | L |
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They sank but where they sank above the wave | M |
A corposant danced a flame that marked their grave | M |
And o'er the flame whereon were fixed our eyes | E |
An albatross huge in volcanic skies | E |
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They died but not in vain their stubborn strife | N |
The zeal that held them onward great of life | N |
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They too are with us they in spite of death | O |
Have reached here first Upon our brows their breath | O |
Breathes softly vaguely sweetly as the breeze | P |
From isles of spice in summer haunted seas | P |
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From palaces and pinnacles of mist | L |
The sunset builds in heaven's amethyst | L |
Beyond yon headland where the billows break | C |
Perhaps they beckon now the winds that shake | C |
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These tamarisks that never bowed to storm | Q |
Haply are but their voices filled with charm | R |
Bidding us rest from labor toil no more | S |
Draw up our vessel on the happy shore | S |
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And of the lotus of content and peace | T |
Growing far inland eat and never cease | T |
To dream the dreams that keep the heart still young | C |
Hearing forever how the foam is flung | C |
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Beneath the cliff forgetting all life's care | U |
Easing the soul of all its long despair | U |
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Let us forget how once within that barque | C |
Like some swift eagle sweeping through the dark | C |
We weighed the sun we weighed the farthest stars | D |
Traced the dim continents of fiery Mars | D |
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Measured the vapory planets whose long run | V |
Takes centuries to gird their glimmering sun | V |
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Let us forget how oft the crystal mountains | W |
Of the white moon we searched and plumbed her fountains | W |
That hale the waters of the onian deep | X |
In ebb and flow and in her power keep | X |
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Let us remember her but as a gem | Y |
A mighty pearl placed in Night's anadem | Y |
Let us forget how once we pierced the flood | L |
Fathorned its groves of coral red as blood | L |
Branching and blooming underneath our keel | Z |
Through which like birds the nautilus and eel | Z |
The rainbowed conch and irised fishes swept | L |
And where the sea snake like a long weed slept | L |
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Here let us dream our dreams let Helen bare | U |
Her white breast for us and let Dido share | U |
Her rich feast with us or let Lalage | A2 |
Laugh in our eyes as once all lovingly | B2 |
She laughed for Flaccus We are done with all | C2 |
The lusts of life its loves are ours Let fall | C2 |
The Catilines the C sars and in Gaul | C2 |
Their legions perish And let Phillip's son | V |
In Ammon's desert die and never a one | V |
Lead back to Greece of all his conquering line | D2 |
From gemmed Hydaspes | W |
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Here we set our shrine | D2 |
Here on this headland templed of God's peaks | W |
Where Beauty only to our worship speaks | W |
Her mighty truths gazing beyond the shore | S |
Into the heart of God her eyes a door | S |
Wherethrough we see the dreams the mysteries | W |
That grew to form in the Art that once was Greece | W |
Making them live once more for us the shapes | W |
That filled the woods the mountains and the capes | W |
Of Hellas Dryad Oread and Faun | D2 |
Naiad and Nereid and all the hosts of Dawn | D2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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