The Second Voyage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEC FCFCDCC GHGHDIH CJCJDKJ LCLCDMC NONODIOD| A | |
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| We've sent our little Cupids all ashore | B |
| They were frightened they were tired they were cold | C |
| Our sails of silk and purple go to store | B |
| And we've cut away our mast of beaten gold | C |
| Foul weather | D |
| Oh 'tis hemp and singing pine for to stand against the brine | E |
| But Love he is our master as of old | C |
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| The sea has shorn our galleries away | F |
| The salt has soiled our gilding past remede | C |
| Our paint is flaked and blistered by the spray | F |
| Our sides are half a fathom furred in weed | C |
| Foul weather | D |
| And the Doves of Venus fled and the petrels came instead | C |
| But Love he was our master at our need | C |
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| 'Was Youth would keep no vigil at the bow | G |
| 'Was Pleasure at the helm too drunk to steer | H |
| We've shipped three able quartermasters now | G |
| Men call them Custom Reverence and Fear | H |
| Foul weather | D |
| They are old and scarred and plain but we'll run no risk again | I |
| From any Port o' Paphos mutineer | H |
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| We seek no more the tempest for delight | C |
| We skirt no more the indraught and the shoal | J |
| We ask no more of any day or night | C |
| Than to come with least adventure to our goal | J |
| Foul weather | D |
| What we find we needs must brook but we do not go to look | K |
| Nor tempt the Lord our God that saved us whole | J |
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| Yet caring so not overmuch we care | L |
| To brace and trim for every foolish blast | C |
| If the squall be pleased to seep us unaware | L |
| He may bellow off to leeward like the last | C |
| Foul weather | D |
| We will blame it on the deep for the watch must have their sleep | M |
| And Love can come and wake us when 'tis past | C |
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| Oh launch them down with music from the beach | N |
| Oh warp them out with garlands from the quays | O |
| Most resolute a damsel unto each | N |
| New prows that seek the old Hesperides | O |
| Foul weather | D |
| Though we know their voyage is vain yet we see our path again | I |
| In the saffroned bridesails scenting all the seas | O |
| Foul weather | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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