On A Ferry Boat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEFDGG HIIHAA JKKJLL AMMANN| THE RIVER widens to a pathless sea | A |
| Beneath the rain and mist and sullen skies | B |
| Look out the window t is a gray emprise | B |
| This piloting of massed humanity | A |
| On such a day from shore to busy shore | C |
| And breeds the thought that beauty is no more | C |
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| But see yon woman in the cabin seat | D |
| The Southland in her face and foreign dress | E |
| She bends above a babe with tenderness | F |
| That mothers use her mouth grows soft and sweet | D |
| Then lifting eyes ye saints in heaven what pain | G |
| In that strange look of hers into the rain | G |
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| There lies a vivid band of scarlet red | H |
| With careless grace across her raven hair | I |
| Her cheek burns brown and t is her way to wear | I |
| A gown where colors stand in satin s stead | H |
| Her eye gleams dark as any you may see | A |
| Along the winding roads of Italy | A |
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| What dreamings must be hers of sunny climes | J |
| This beggar woman midst the draggled throng | K |
| How must she pine for solaces of song | K |
| For warmth and love to furnish laughing times | J |
| Her every glance upon the waters gray | L |
| Is piteous with some lost yesterday | L |
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| I ve seen a dove storm beaten far at sea | A |
| And once a flower growing stark alone | M |
| From out a rock I ve heard a hound make moan | M |
| Left masterless but never came to me | A |
| Ere this such sense of creatures torn apart | N |
| From all that fondles life and feeds the heart | N |
Richard Francis Burton
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