Departure (southampton Docks: October, 1899) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ACCA ADADDAWhile the far farewell music thins and fails | A |
And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine | B |
All smalling slowly to the gray sea line | B |
And each significant red smoke shaft pales | A |
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Keen sense of severance everywhere prevails | A |
Which shapes the late long tramp of mounting men | C |
To seeming words that ask and ask again | C |
How long O striving Teutons Slavs and Gaels | A |
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Must your wroth reasonings trade on lives like these | A |
That are as puppets in a playing hand | D |
When shall the saner softer polities | A |
Whereof we dream have play in each proud land | D |
And patriotism grown Godlike scorn to stand | D |
Bondslave to realms but circle earth and seas | A |
Thomas Hardy
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