To Sydney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCDCD EEEFEF DDDGDH IIIJIJ KKKKKK LLLMLM KKKNKN BBBIBI| NOT thine where marble still and white | A |
| Old statues share the tempered light | A |
| And mock the uneven modern flight | A |
| But in the stream | B |
| Of daily sorrow and delight | A |
| To seek a theme | B |
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| I too O friend have steeled my heart | C |
| Boldly to choose the better part | C |
| To leave the beaten ways of art | C |
| And wholly free | D |
| To dare beyond the scanty chart | C |
| The deeper sea | D |
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| All vain restrictions left behind | E |
| Frail bark I loose my anchored mind | E |
| And large before the prosperous wind | E |
| Desert the strand | F |
| A new Columbus sworn to find | E |
| The morning land | F |
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| Nor too ambitious friend To thee | D |
| I own my weakness Not for me | D |
| To sing the enfranchised nations' glee | D |
| Or count the cost | G |
| Of warships foundered far at sea | D |
| And battles lost | H |
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| High on the far seen sunny hills | I |
| Morning content my bosom fills | I |
| Well pleased I trace the wandering rills | I |
| And learn their birth | J |
| Far off the clash of sovereign wills | I |
| May shake the earth | J |
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| The nimble circuit of the wheel | K |
| The uncertain poise of merchant weal | K |
| Heaven of famine fire and steel | K |
| When nations fall | K |
| These heedful from afar I feel | K |
| I mark them all | K |
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| But not my friend not these I sing | L |
| My voice shall fill a narrower ring | L |
| Tired souls that flag upon the wing | L |
| I seek to cheer | M |
| Brave wines to strengthen hope I bring | L |
| Life's cantineer | M |
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| Some song that shall be suppling oil | K |
| To weary muscles strained with toil | K |
| Shall hearten for the daily moil | K |
| Or widely read | N |
| Make sweet for him that tills the soil | K |
| His daily bread | N |
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| Such songs in my flushed hours I dream | B |
| High thought instead of armour gleam | B |
| Or warrior cantos ream by ream | B |
| To load the shelves | I |
| Songs with a lilt of words that seem | B |
| To sing themselves | I |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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