Sydney Wheeler Jephcott

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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 ThuleA
Whom a Witch wife stole at birthB
In a country known but newlyA
All under the dumb huge EarthB
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That King's in a Forest toilingC
And he never the green sward delvesD
But he sees all his green waves boilingC
Over his sands and shelvesD
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In these sunsets vast and fieryA
In these dawns divine he seesE
Hy Brasil Mannan and EireA
And the Isle of AppletreesE
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He watches heart still and breathlessE
The clouds through the deep day trailingC
As the white winged vessels gatheredF
Into his harbours sailingC
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Ranked Ibis and lazy EaglesE
In the great blue flame may riseE
But ne'er Sea mew or Solan beatingC
Up through their grey low skiesE
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When the storm led fires are breakingC
Great waves of the molten nightG
Deep in his eyes comes achingC
The icy Boreal LightG
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O lost King and O people perishedH
Your Thule has grown one graveI
Unvisited as uncherishedH
Save by the wandering waveI
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The billows burst in his doorwaysE
The spray swoops over his wallsE
O his banners that throb dishonouredH
O'er arms that hide in his hallsE
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Deserved is your desolationJ
Why could you not stir and saveI
The last born heir of your nationJ
Sold into the South a slaveI
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Till he dies and is buried dulyA
In the hot Australian earthB
The lorn lost King of ThuleA
Whom a Witch wife stole at birthB

Sydney Wheeler Jephcott



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