In The South Pacific Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK FKFK LKLK MNMN| A vision of a savage land | A |
| A glimpse of cloud ringed seas | B |
| A moonlit deck a murderous hand | A |
| No more no more of these | B |
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| No more how heals the tender flesh | C |
| Once torn by savage beast | D |
| The wound re opening bleeds afresh | C |
| Each season at the least | D |
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| O day for dawn of thee how prayed | E |
| The spirit sore distressed | F |
| Thy latest beams upslanting made | E |
| A pathway for the blest | F |
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| And robes new donned of the redeemed | G |
| Gleamed white past grief's dark pall | H |
| So this a day of death which seemed | G |
| A birthday let us call | I |
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| Remembering such day as this | J |
| A soul from flesh was shriven | K |
| By death God's messenger of bliss | J |
| A spirit entered Heaven | K |
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| Thy dying head no loving breast | F |
| Upheld O early slain | K |
| But soon mid welcoming saints 'twas prest | F |
| Where God's own Child has lain | K |
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| Though none at death broke Bread for thee | L |
| Or poured the Sacred Wine | K |
| Thou nourished at His Board dost see | L |
| The Substance of the Sign | K |
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| We mourned thee Heaven's new born and rich | M |
| Past all our prayers could claim | N |
| Secure in blessedness of which | M |
| We have not learnt the name | N |
Mary Hannay Foott
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