Man Sails The Deep Awhile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABA CDDCDC EFFEGE HIIHIH JKKJKJ| MAN sails the deep awhile | A |
| Loud runs the roaring tide | B |
| The seas are wild and wide | B |
| O'er many a salt o'er many a desert mile | A |
| The unchained breakers ride | B |
| The quivering stars beguile | A |
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| Hope bears the sole command | C |
| Hope with unshaken eyes | D |
| Sees flaw and storm arise | D |
| Hope the good steersman with unwearying hand | C |
| Steers under changing skies | D |
| Unchanged toward the land | C |
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| O wind that bravely blows | E |
| O hope that sails with all | F |
| Where stars and voices call | F |
| O ship undaunted that forever goes | E |
| Where God her admiral | G |
| His battle signal shows | E |
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| What though the seas and wind | H |
| Far on the deep should whelm | I |
| Colours and sails and helm | I |
| There too you touch that port that you designed | H |
| There in the mid seas' realm | I |
| Shall you that haven find | H |
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| Well hast thou sailed now die | J |
| To die is not to sleep | K |
| Still your true course you keep | K |
| O sailor soul still sailing for the sky | J |
| And fifty fathom deep | K |
| Your colours still shall fly | J |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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