As Slow Our Ship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCDC EAFAGCGC HAHAICIC JAJAKCKCAs slow our ship her foamy track | A |
Against the wind was cleaving | A |
Her trembling pennant still look'd back | A |
To that dear isle 'twas leaving | A |
So loath we part from all we love | B |
From all the links that bind us | C |
So turn our hearts as on we rove | D |
To those we've left behind us | C |
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When round the bowl of vanish'd years | E |
We talk with joyous seeming | A |
With smiles that might as well be tears | F |
So faint so sad their beaming | A |
While memory brings us back again | G |
Each early tie that twined us | C |
Oh sweet's the cup that circles then | G |
To those we've left behind us | C |
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And when in other climes we meet | H |
Some isle or vale enhanting | A |
Where all looks flowery wild and sweet | H |
And nought but love is wanting | A |
We think how great had been our bliss | I |
If Heaven had but assign'd us | C |
To live and die in scenes like this | I |
With some we've left behind us | C |
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As travellers oft look back at eve | J |
When eastward darkly going | A |
To gaze upon that light they leave | J |
Still faint behind them glowing | A |
So when the close of pleasure's day | K |
To gloom hath near consign'd us | C |
We turn to catch one fading ray | K |
Of joy that's left beind us | C |
Thomas Moore
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