With Drake In The Tropics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMNM OPOPQRQR STSTACAB| South and far south below the Line | A |
| Our Admiral leads us on | B |
| Above undreamed of planets shine | A |
| The stars we know are gone | C |
| Around our clustered seamen mark | D |
| The silent deep ablaze | E |
| With fires through which the far down shark | D |
| Shoots glimmering on his ways | E |
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| The sultry tropic breezes fail | F |
| That plagued us all day through | G |
| Like molten silver hangs our sail | F |
| Our decks are dark with dew | G |
| Now the rank moon commands the sky | H |
| Ho Bid the watch beware | I |
| And rouse all sleeping men that lie | H |
| Unsheltered in her glare | I |
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| How long the time 'twixt bell and bell | J |
| How still our lanthorns burn | K |
| How strange our whispered words that tell | J |
| Of England and return | K |
| Old towns old streets old friends old loves | L |
| We name them each to each | M |
| While the lit face of Heaven removes | N |
| Them farther from our reach | M |
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| Now is the utmost ebb of night | O |
| When mind and body sink | P |
| And loneliness and gathering fright | O |
| O'erwhelm us if we think | P |
| Yet look where in his room apart | Q |
| All windows opened wide | R |
| Our Admiral thrusts away the chart | Q |
| And comes to walk outside | R |
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| Kindly from man to man he goes | S |
| With comfort praise or jest | T |
| Quick to suspect our childish woes | S |
| Our terror and unrest | T |
| It is as though the sun should shine | A |
| Our midnight fears are gone | C |
| South and far south below the Line | A |
| Our Admiral leads us on | B |
Rudyard Kipling
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