Song Of A Hyperborean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD CECEF GHGHF HIHIF HJHJCD| I come from a land in the sun bright deep | A |
| Where golden gardens grow | B |
| Where the winds of the north be calmed in sleep | A |
| Their conch shells never blow | B |
| Haste to that holy Isle with me | C |
| Haste haste | D |
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| So near the track of the stars are we | C |
| That oft on night's pale beams | E |
| The distant sounds of their harmony | C |
| Come to our ear like dreams | E |
| Then haste to that holy Isle with me etc | F |
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| The Moon too brings her world so nigh | G |
| That when the night seer looks | H |
| To that shadowless orb in a vernal sky | G |
| He can number its hills and brooks | H |
| Then haste etc | F |
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| To the Sun god all our hearts and lyres | H |
| By day by night belong | I |
| And the breath we draw from his living fires | H |
| We give him back in song | I |
| Then haste etc | F |
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| From us descends the maid who brings | H |
| To Delos gifts divine | J |
| And our wild bees lend their rainbow wings | H |
| To glitter on Delphi's shrine | J |
| Then haste to that holy Isle with me | C |
| Haste haste | D |
Thomas Moore
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