To The Viriginian Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DCEEDC FGHHFG HHIIJH FKEEFK LHMNLH OOPPOE EQHHEQ FLLLFL FRBBFR HFFFFF PPBBPP| You braue Heroique minds | A |
| Worthy your Countries Name | B |
| That Honour still pursue | C |
| Goe and subdue | C |
| Whilst loyt'ring Hinds | A |
| Lurke here at home with shame | B |
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| Britans you stay too long | D |
| Quickly aboard bestow you | C |
| And with a merry Gale | E |
| Swell your stretch'd Sayle | E |
| With Vowes as strong | D |
| As the Winds that blow you | C |
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| Your Course securely steere | F |
| West and by South forth keepe | G |
| Rocks Lee shores nor Sholes | H |
| When EOLVS scowles | H |
| You need not feare | F |
| So absolute the Deepe | G |
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| And cheerefully at Sea | H |
| Successe you still intice | H |
| To get the Pearle and Gold | I |
| And ours to hold | I |
| VIRGINIA | J |
| Earth's onely Paradise | H |
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| Where Nature hath in store | F |
| Fowle Venison and Fish | K |
| And the Fruitfull'st Soyle | E |
| Without your Toyle | E |
| Three Haruests more | F |
| All greater then your Wish | K |
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| And the ambitious Vine | L |
| Crownes with his purple Masse | H |
| The cedar reaching hie | M |
| To kisse the Sky | N |
| The Cypresse Pine | L |
| And vse full Sassafras | H |
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| To whome the golden Age | O |
| Still Natures lawes doth giue | O |
| No other Cares that tend | P |
| But Them to defend | P |
| From Winters rage | O |
| That long there doth not liue | E |
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| When as the Lushious smell | E |
| Of that delicious Land | Q |
| Aboue the Seas that flowes | H |
| The cleere Wind throwes | H |
| Your Hearts to swell | E |
| Approaching the deare Strande | Q |
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| In kenning of the Shore | F |
| Thanks to God first giuen | L |
| O you the happy'st men | L |
| Be Frolike then | L |
| Let Cannons roare | F |
| Frighting the wide Heauen | L |
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| And in Regions farre | F |
| Such Heroes bring yee foorth | R |
| As those from whom We came | B |
| And plant Our name | B |
| Vnder that Starre | F |
| Not knowne vnto our North | R |
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| And as there Plenty growes | H |
| Of Lawrell euery where | F |
| APOLLO'S Sacred tree | F |
| You may it see | F |
| A Poets Browes | F |
| To crowne that may sing there | F |
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| Thy Voyages attend | P |
| Industrious HACKLVIT | P |
| Whose Reading shall inflame | B |
| Men to seeke Fame | B |
| And much commend | P |
| To after Times thy Wit | P |
Michael Drayton
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