In The Matter Of One Compass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEDE FGFH IIJJKKLLMMNNOO FGFH PQPQFGFHH| When foot to wheel and back to wind | A |
| The helmsman dare not look behind | A |
| But hears beyond his compass light | B |
| The blind bow thunder through the night | B |
| And like a harpstring ere it snaps | C |
| The rigging sing beneath the caps | C |
| Above the shriek of storm in sail | D |
| Or rattle of the blocks blown free | E |
| Set for the peace beyond the gale | D |
| This song the Needle sings the Sea | E |
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| Oh drunken Wave Oh driving Cloud | F |
| Rage of the Deep and sterile Rain | G |
| By love upheld by God allowed | F |
| We go but we return again | H |
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| When leagued about the 'wildered boat | I |
| The rainbow Jellies fill and float | I |
| And lilting where the laver lingers | J |
| The Starfish trips on all her fingers | J |
| Where 'neath his myriad spines ashock | K |
| The Sea egg ripples down the rock | K |
| An orange wonder dimly guessed | L |
| From darkness where the Cuttles rest | L |
| Moored o'er the darker deeps that hide | M |
| The blind white Sea snake and his bride | M |
| Who drowsing nose the long lost Ships | N |
| Let down through darkness to their lips | N |
| Safe swung above the glassy death | O |
| Hear what the constant Needle saith | O |
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| Oh lisping Reef Oh listless Cloud | F |
| In slumber on a pulseless main | G |
| By Love upheld by God allowed | F |
| We go but we return again | H |
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| E'en so through Tropic and through Trade | P |
| Awed by the shadow of new skies | Q |
| As we shall watch old planets fade | P |
| And mark the stranger stars arise | Q |
| So surely back through Sun and Cloud | F |
| So surely from the outward main | G |
| By Love recalled by God allowed | F |
| Shall we return return again | H |
| Yea we return return again | H |
Rudyard Kipling
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