A Sunset Fantasy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDF GBGB EHEH IJIJ CECE KLKL MEME NONO PEPE EJEJ ELEL EQEQ RJRJ STST PEPE UEVESpellbound by a sweet fantasy | A |
At evenglow I stand | B |
Beside an opaline strange sea | A |
That rings a sunset land | B |
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The rich lights fade out one by one | C |
And like a peony | A |
Drowning in wine the crimson sun | C |
Sinks down in that strange sea | A |
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His wake across the ocean floor | D |
In a long glory lies | E |
Like a gold wave way to the shore | D |
Of some sea paradise | F |
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My dream flies after him and I | G |
Am in another land | B |
The sun sets in another sky | G |
And we sit hand in hand | B |
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Gray eyes look into mine such eyes | E |
I think the angel's are | H |
Soft as the soft light in the skies | E |
When shines the morning star | H |
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And tremulous as morn when thin | I |
Gold lights begin to glow | J |
Revealing the bright soul within | I |
As dawn the sun below | J |
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So hand in hand we watch the sun | C |
Burn down the Western deeps | E |
Dreaming a charmed dream as one | C |
Who in enchantment sleeps | E |
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A dream of how we twain some day | K |
Careless of map or chart | L |
Will both take ship and sail away | K |
Into the sunset's heart | L |
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Our ship shall be of sandal built | M |
Like ships in old world tales | E |
Carven with cunning art and gilt | M |
And winged with scented sails | E |
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Of silver silk whereon the red | N |
Great gladioli burn | O |
A rainbow flag at her masthead | N |
A rose flag at her stern | O |
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And perching on the point above | P |
Wherefrom the pennon blows | E |
The figure of a flying dove | P |
And in her beak a rose | E |
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And from the fading land the breeze | E |
Shall bring us blowing low | J |
Old odours and old memories | E |
And airs of long ago | J |
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A melody that has no words | E |
Of mortal speech a part | L |
Yet touching all the deepest chords | E |
That tremble in the heart | L |
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A scented song blown oversea | E |
As though from bowers of bloom | Q |
A wind harp in a lilac tree | E |
Breathed music and perfume | Q |
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And we no more with longings pale | R |
Will smile to hear it blow | J |
I in the shadow of the sail | R |
You in the sunset glow | J |
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For with the fading land our fond | S |
Old fears shall all fade out | T |
Paled by the light from shores beyond | S |
The dread of Death or Doubt | T |
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And from a gloomy cloud above | P |
When Death his shadow flings | E |
The Spirit of Immortal Love | P |
Will shield us with his wings | E |
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He is the lord of dreams divine | U |
And lures us with his smiles | E |
Along the splendour opaline | V |
Unto the Blessed Isles | E |
Victor James Daley
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