Home-woe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBA CDDDC EFFFG HIIIH| The wreckage of some name forgotten barque | A |
| Half buried by the dolorous shore | B |
| Whereto the living waters never more | B |
| Their urgent billows pour | B |
| But the salt spray can reach and cark | A |
| - | |
| So lies my spirit lonely and forlorn | C |
| On Being's strange and perilous strand | D |
| And rusted sword and fleshless hand | D |
| Point from the smothering sand | D |
| And anchor chainless and out worn | C |
| - | |
| But o'er what Deep unconquered and uncharted | E |
| And steering by what vanished star | F |
| And where my dim imagined consorts are | F |
| Or hidden harbour far | F |
| From whence my sails unblessed departed | G |
| - | |
| Can memory nor still intuition teach | H |
| And so I watch with alien eyes | I |
| This World's remote and unremembered skies | I |
| While around me weary rise | I |
| The babblings of a foreign speech | H |
Sydney Wheeler Jephcott
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