Song Of Diego Valdez Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HIJIKLM NKOJPQMR HSHTUVWV UHUHHHUH UXUXYZA2Z DB2TC2DUUU HD2HD2TLUL TGTGTUUU E2F2HF2HUUU UG2HG2H2I2UI2 J2HUHK2L2UL THA2HYZA2Z UM2UM2TLULA | |
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The God of Fair Beginnings | B |
Hath prospered here my hand | C |
The cargoes of my lading | D |
And the keels of my command | C |
For out of many ventures | E |
That sailed with hope as high | F |
My own have made the better trade | G |
And Admiral am I | F |
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To me my King's much honour | H |
To me my people's love | I |
To me the pride of Princes | J |
And power all pride above | I |
To me the shouting cities | K |
To me the mob's refrain | L |
'Who knows not noble Valdez | M |
'Hath never heard of Spain ' | - |
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But I remember comrades | N |
Old playmates on new seas | K |
Whenas we traded orpiment | O |
Among the savages | J |
A thousand leagues to south'ard | P |
And thirty years removed | Q |
They knew nor noble Valdez | M |
But me they knew and loved | R |
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Then they that found good liquor | H |
They drank it not alone | S |
And they that found fair plunder | H |
They told us every one | T |
About our chosen islands | U |
Or secret shoals between | V |
When weary from far voyage | W |
We gathered to careen | V |
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There burned our breaming fagots | U |
All pale along the shore | H |
There rose our worn pavilions | U |
A sail above an oar | H |
As flashed each yeaming anchor | H |
Through mellow seas afire | H |
So swift our careless captains | U |
Rowed each to his desire | H |
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Where lay our loosened harness | U |
Where turned our naked feet | X |
Whose tavern 'mid the palm trees | U |
What quenchings of what heat | X |
Oh fountain in the desert | Y |
Oh cistern in the waste | Z |
Oh bread we ate in secret | A2 |
Oh cup we spilled in haste | Z |
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The youth new taught of longing | D |
The widow curbed and wan | B2 |
The goodwife proud at season | T |
And the maid aware of man | C2 |
All souls unslaked consuming | D |
Defrauded in delays | U |
Desire not more their quittance | U |
Than I those forfeit days | U |
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I dreamed to wait my pleasure | H |
Unchanged my spring would bide | D2 |
Wherefore to wait my pleasure | H |
I put my spring aside | D2 |
Till first in face of Fortune | T |
And last in mazed disdain | L |
I made Diego Valdez | U |
High Admiral of Spain | L |
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Then walked no wind 'neath Heaven | T |
Nor surge that did not aid | G |
I dared extreme occasion | T |
Nor ever one betrayed | G |
They wrought a deeper treason | T |
Led seas that served my needs | U |
They sold Diego Valdez | U |
To bondage of great deeds | U |
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The tempest flung me seaward | E2 |
And pinned and bade me hold | F2 |
The course I might not alter | H |
And men esteemed me bold | F2 |
The calms embayed my quarry | H |
The fog wreath sealed his eyes | U |
The dawn wind brought my topsails | U |
And men esteemed me wise | U |
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Yet 'spite my tyrant triumphs | U |
Bewildered dispossessed | G2 |
My dream held I beore me | H |
My vision of my rest | G2 |
But crowned by Fleet and People | H2 |
And bound by King and Pope | I2 |
Stands here Diego Valdez | U |
To rob me of my hope | I2 |
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No prayer of mine shall move him | J2 |
No word of his set free | H |
The Lord of Sixty Pennants | U |
And the Steward of the Sea | H |
His will can loose ten thousand | K2 |
To seek their loves again | L2 |
But not Diego Valdez | U |
High Admiral of Spain | L |
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There walks no wind 'neath Heaven | T |
Nor wave that shall restore | H |
The old careening riot | A2 |
And the clamorous crowded shore | H |
The fountain in the desert | Y |
The cistern in the waste | Z |
The bread we ate in secret | A2 |
The cup we spilled in haste | Z |
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Now call I to my Captains | U |
For council fly the sign | M2 |
Now leap their zealous galleys | U |
Twelve oared across the brine | M2 |
To me the straiter prison | T |
To me the heavier chain | L |
To me Diego Valdez | U |
High Admiral of Spain | L |
Rudyard Kipling
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