Poet Thomas Moore

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As Slow Our Ship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCDC EAFAGCGC HAHAICIC JAJAKCKC

As slow our ship her foamy trackA
Against the wind was cleavingA
Her trembling pennant still look'd backA
To that dear isle 'twas leavingA
So loath we part from all we loveB
From all the links that bind usC
So turn our hearts as on we roveD
To those we've left behind usC
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When round the bowl of vanish'd yearsE
We talk with joyous seemingA
With smiles that might as well be tearsF
So faint so sad their beamingA
While memory brings us back againG
Each early tie that twined usC
Oh sweet's the cup that circles thenG
To those we've left behind usC
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And when in other climes we meetH
Some isle or vale enhantingA
Where all looks flowery wild and sweetH
And nought but love is wantingA
We think how great had been our blissI
If Heaven had but assign'd usC
To live and die in scenes like thisI
With some we've left behind usC
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As travellers oft look back at eveJ
When eastward darkly goingA
To gaze upon that light they leaveJ
Still faint behind them glowingA
So when the close of pleasure's dayK
To gloom hath near consign'd usC
We turn to catch one fading rayK
Of joy that's left beind usC

Thomas Moore



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