I Am Like One That For Long Days Had Sate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDEFEGFEG HIIHFEEFJJKLKL| I AM like one that for long days had sate | A |
| With seaward eyes set keen against the gale | B |
| On some lone foreland watching sail by sail | B |
| The portbound ships for one ship that was late | A |
| And sail by sail his heart burned up with joy | C |
| And cruelly was quenched until at last | D |
| One ship the looked for pennant at its mast | D |
| Bore gaily and dropt safely past the buoy | E |
| And lo the loved one was not there was dead | F |
| Then would he watch no more no more the sea | E |
| With myriad vessels sail by sail perplex | G |
| His eyes and mock his longing Weary head | F |
| Take now thy rest eyes close for no more me | E |
| Shall hopes untried elate or ruined vex | G |
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| For thus on love I waited thus for love | H |
| Strained all my senses eagerly and long | I |
| Thus for her coming ever trimmed my song | I |
| Till in the far skies coloured as a dove | H |
| A bird gold coloured flickered far and fled | F |
| Over the pathless waterwaste for me | E |
| And with spread hands I watched the bright bird flee | E |
| And waited till before me she dropped dead | F |
| O golden bird in these dove coloured skies | J |
| How long I sought how long with wearied eyes | J |
| I sought O bird the promise of thy flight | K |
| And now the morn has dawned the morn has died | L |
| The day has come and gone and once more night | K |
| About my lone life settles wild and wide | L |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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