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 mindsA
Worthy your country's nameB
That honour still pursueC
Go and subdueC
Whilst loitering hindsA
Lurk here at home with shameB
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Britons you stay too longD
Quickly aboard bestow youC
And with a merry galeE
Swell your stretch'd sailE
With vows as strongD
As the winds that blow youC
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Your course securely steerF
West and by south forth keepG
Rocks lee shores nor shoalsH
When Eolus scowlsH
You need not fearF
So absolute the deepG
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And cheerfully at seaH
Success you still enticeH
To get the pearl and goldI
And ours to holdI
VirginiaJ
Earth's only paradiseH
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Where nature hath in storeK
Fowl venison and fishL
And the fruitfull'st soilM
Without your toilM
Three harvests moreK
All greater than your wishL
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And the ambitious vineN
Crowns with his purple massH
The cedar reaching highO
To kiss the skyO
The cypress pineN
And useful sassafrasH
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To whom the Golden AgeP
Still nature's laws doth giveQ
No other cares attendR
But them to defendR
From winter's rageP
That long there doth not liveS
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When as the luscious smellT
Of that delicious landU
Above the seas that flowsH
The clear wind throwsH
Your hearts to swellT
Approaching the dear strandU
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In kenning of the shoreK
Thanks to God first givenV
O you the happiest menW
Be frolic thenW
Let cannons roarK
Frighting the wide heavenV
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And in regions farX
Such heroes bring ye forthY
As those from whom we cameB
And plant our nameB
Under that starX
Not known unto our NorthY
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And as there plenty growsH
Of laurel everywhereZ
Apollo's sacred treeH
You it may seeH
A poet's browsH
To crown that may sing thereZ
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Thy Voyages attendR
Industrious HakluytR
Whose reading shall inflameB
Men to seek fameB
And much commendR
To after times thy witR

Michael Drayton



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