A Song Of Travel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGH IJIJJJ KLKLGG MJMJNN| Where's the lamp that Hero lit | A |
| Once to call Leander home | B |
| Equal Time hath shovelled it | A |
| 'Neath the wrack of Greece and Rome | B |
| Neither wait we any more | C |
| That worn sail which Argo bore | C |
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| Dust and dust of ashes close | D |
| All the Vestal Virgin's care | E |
| And the oldest altar shows | F |
| But an older darkness there | E |
| Age encamped Oblivion | G |
| Tenteth every light that shone | H |
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| Yet shall we for Suns that die | I |
| Wall our wanderings from desire | J |
| Or because the Moon is high | I |
| Scorn to use a nearer fire | J |
| Lest some envious Pharaoh stir | J |
| Make our lives our sepulcher | J |
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| Nay Though Time with petty Fate | K |
| Prison us and Emperors | L |
| By our Arts do we create | K |
| That which Time himself devours | L |
| Such machines as well may run | G |
| 'Gainst the Horses of the Sun | G |
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| When we would a new abode | M |
| Space our tyrant King no more | J |
| Lays the long lance of the road | M |
| At our feet and flees before | J |
| Breathless ere we overwhelm | N |
| To submit a further realm | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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