Of All The Ships Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCB CBCB EBEB E| Of all the ships the ocean rolls | A |
| How many find untimely graves | B |
| Piled high by you upon the shoals | A |
| O waves and winds o winds and waves | B |
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| How many a bird that leaves its bower | C |
| And o'er the sky in autumn droves | D |
| You beat and blindly overpower | C |
| O waves and winds o winds and waves | B |
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| Should easy luck or high endeavour | C |
| Be our aim it little saves | B |
| For you pursue our footsteps ever | C |
| O waves and winds o winds and waves | B |
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| Still it is past our comprehending | E |
| What design your song enslaves | B |
| Rolling on until time's ending | E |
| O waves and winds o winds and waves | B |
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| Translated by Corneliu M Popescu | E |
Mihai Eminescu
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