Geographical Knowledge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE BBBB FGFG HIHI JAJA| A Memory Of Christiana C | A |
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| Where Blackmoor was the road that led | B |
| To Bath she could not show | C |
| Nor point the sky that overspread | B |
| Towns ten miles off or so | C |
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| But that Calcutta stood this way | D |
| Cape Horn there figured fell | E |
| That here was Boston here Bombay | D |
| She could declare full well | E |
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| Less known to her the track athwart | B |
| Froom Mead or Yell'ham Wood | B |
| Than how to make some Austral port | B |
| In seas of surly mood | B |
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| She saw the glint of Guinea's shore | F |
| Behind the plum tree nigh | G |
| Heard old unruly Biscay's roar | F |
| In the weir's purl hard by | G |
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| My son's a sailor and he knows | H |
| All seas and many lands | I |
| And when he's home he points and shows | H |
| Each country where it stands | I |
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| He's now just there by Gib's high rock | J |
| And when he gets you see | A |
| To Portsmouth here behind the clock | J |
| Then he'll come back to me | A |
Thomas Hardy
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