To The Virginian Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DCEEDC FGHHFG HHIIJH KLMMKL NHOONH PQRRPS TUHHTU KVWWKV XYBBXY HZHHHZ RRBBRRYou 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 |
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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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