A Ballad Of The Last King Of Thule Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE ECFC EECE CGCG HIHI EEHE JIJI ABAB| There was a King of Thule | A |
| Whom a Witch wife stole at birth | B |
| In a country known but newly | A |
| All under the dumb huge Earth | B |
| - | |
| That King's in a Forest toiling | C |
| And he never the green sward delves | D |
| But he sees all his green waves boiling | C |
| Over his sands and shelves | D |
| - | |
| In these sunsets vast and fiery | A |
| In these dawns divine he sees | E |
| Hy Brasil Mannan and Eire | A |
| And the Isle of Appletrees | E |
| - | |
| He watches heart still and breathless | E |
| The clouds through the deep day trailing | C |
| As the white winged vessels gathered | F |
| Into his harbours sailing | C |
| - | |
| Ranked Ibis and lazy Eagles | E |
| In the great blue flame may rise | E |
| But ne'er Sea mew or Solan beating | C |
| Up through their grey low skies | E |
| - | |
| When the storm led fires are breaking | C |
| Great waves of the molten night | G |
| Deep in his eyes comes aching | C |
| The icy Boreal Light | G |
| - | |
| O lost King and O people perished | H |
| Your Thule has grown one grave | I |
| Unvisited as uncherished | H |
| Save by the wandering wave | I |
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| The billows burst in his doorways | E |
| The spray swoops over his walls | E |
| O his banners that throb dishonoured | H |
| O'er arms that hide in his halls | E |
| - | |
| Deserved is your desolation | J |
| Why could you not stir and save | I |
| The last born heir of your nation | J |
| Sold into the South a slave | I |
| - | |
| Till he dies and is buried duly | A |
| In the hot Australian earth | B |
| The lorn lost King of Thule | A |
| Whom a Witch wife stole at birth | B |
Sydney Wheeler Jephcott
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