The Sailor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJI KLAL MNMN OPOP QQQQ| The Sailor sighs as sinks his native shore | A |
| As all its lessening turrets bluely fade | B |
| He climbs the mast to feast his eye once more | A |
| And busy Fancy fondly lends her aid | B |
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| Ah now each dear domestic scene he knew | C |
| Recall'd and cherish'd in a foreign clime | D |
| Charms with the magic of a moonlight view | C |
| Its colours mellow'd not impair'd by time | D |
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| True as the needle homeward points his heart | E |
| Thro' all the horrors of the stormy main | F |
| This the last wish that would with life depart | E |
| To meet the smile of her he loves again | G |
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| When Morn first faintly draws her silver line | H |
| Or Eve's grey cloud descends to drink the wave | I |
| When sea and sky in midnight darkness join | J |
| Still still he views the parting look she gave | I |
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| Her gentle spirit lightly hovering o'er | K |
| Attends his little bark from pole to pole | L |
| And when the beating billows round him roar | A |
| Whispers sweet hope to sooth his troubled soul | L |
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| Carv'd is her name in many a spicy grove | M |
| In many a plaintain forest waving wide | N |
| Where dusky youths in painted plumage rove | M |
| And giant palms o'er arch the golden tide | N |
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| But lo at last he comes with crowded sail | O |
| Lo o'er the cliff what eager figures bend | P |
| And hark what mingled murmurs swell the gale | O |
| In each he hears the welcome of a friend | P |
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| 'Tis she 'tis she herself she waves her hand | Q |
| Soon is the anchor cast the canvass furl'd | Q |
| Soon thro' the whitening surge he springs to land | Q |
| And clasps the maid he singled from the world | Q |
Samuel Rogers
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