To The Virginian Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DCEEDC FGHHFG HHIIJH KLMMKL NHOONH PQRRPS TUHHTU KVWWKV XYBBXY HZHHHZ RRBBRR| You brave heroic minds | A |
| Worthy your country's name | B |
| That honour still pursue | C |
| Go and subdue | C |
| Whilst loitering hinds | A |
| Lurk here at home with shame | B |
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| Britons you stay too long | D |
| Quickly aboard bestow you | C |
| And with a merry gale | E |
| Swell your stretch'd sail | E |
| With vows as strong | D |
| As the winds that blow you | C |
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| Your course securely steer | F |
| West and by south forth keep | G |
| Rocks lee shores nor shoals | H |
| When Eolus scowls | H |
| You need not fear | F |
| So absolute the deep | G |
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| And cheerfully at sea | H |
| Success you still entice | H |
| To get the pearl and gold | I |
| And ours to hold | I |
| Virginia | J |
| Earth's only paradise | H |
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| Where nature hath in store | K |
| Fowl venison and fish | L |
| And the fruitfull'st soil | M |
| Without your toil | M |
| Three harvests more | K |
| All greater than your wish | L |
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| And the ambitious vine | N |
| Crowns with his purple mass | H |
| The cedar reaching high | O |
| To kiss the sky | O |
| The cypress pine | N |
| And useful sassafras | H |
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| To whom the Golden Age | P |
| Still nature's laws doth give | Q |
| No other cares attend | R |
| But them to defend | R |
| From winter's rage | P |
| That long there doth not live | S |
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| When as the luscious smell | T |
| Of that delicious land | U |
| Above the seas that flows | H |
| The clear wind throws | H |
| Your hearts to swell | T |
| Approaching the dear strand | U |
| - | |
| In kenning of the shore | K |
| Thanks to God first given | V |
| O you the happiest men | W |
| Be frolic then | W |
| Let cannons roar | K |
| Frighting the wide heaven | V |
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| And in regions far | X |
| Such heroes bring ye forth | Y |
| As those from whom we came | B |
| And plant our name | B |
| Under that star | X |
| Not known unto our North | Y |
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| And as there plenty grows | H |
| Of laurel everywhere | Z |
| Apollo's sacred tree | H |
| You it may see | H |
| A poet's brows | H |
| To crown that may sing there | Z |
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| Thy Voyages attend | R |
| Industrious Hakluyt | R |
| Whose reading shall inflame | B |
| Men to seek fame | B |
| And much commend | R |
| To after times thy wit | R |
Michael Drayton
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