To The Viriginian Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DCEEDC FGHHFG HHIIJH FKEEFK LHMNLH OOPPOE EQHHEQ FLLLFL FRBBFR HFFFFF PPBBPPYou 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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