The Isles Of Sleep. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDEDEFFEGHGHII HJKJKIILIMINIIN| The opiate isles upon time's sea | A |
| In the dream dark | B |
| Rise with their harbours silently | A |
| Before each day abandoned bark | B |
| And the worn mariner anchors there | C |
| Till thought new waked in the dewy air | C |
| Sings like a lark | B |
| The silent isles with their dream shores | D |
| On the waves float | E |
| Whereto the faint eyed mariner oars | D |
| Within the dusk his eerie boat | E |
| All care put by like one who knows | F |
| No tide there turns and no wind blows | F |
| Near or remote | E |
| From day to day upon time's main | G |
| We sail on so | H |
| Sure every night some port to gain | G |
| In the dream dark where no winds blow | H |
| Until we too this sea have cross'd | I |
| E'en like the galleons that were tost | I |
| Here long ago | H |
| Some seem each day to sail so far | J |
| They reach that shore | K |
| So very soon where all things are | J |
| As they will be for evermore | K |
| Some for so many a night and day | I |
| Have to drift on their lonely way | I |
| Ere all is o'er | L |
| But all sails touch the land at last | I |
| The slowest come | M |
| As in a mist out of the past | I |
| The last dream isle fades on the foam | N |
| The last stars rise the last stars set | I |
| And there is but the last day yet | I |
| 'Tween them and home | N |
Robert Crawford
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