Poncé De Léon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDC EFGF HIDI JKHK HLML LNEN OPHP BQBQ RNEN| A | |
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| By a black wharf I stood lately | B |
| When the night was at its noon | C |
| Keen malicious stars were shining | D |
| And a wicked white faced moon | C |
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| And I saw a stately vessel | E |
| Built in fashion quaint and old | F |
| From her masthead in the moonlight | G |
| Hung a flag of faded gold | F |
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| Black with age her masts and spars were | H |
| Black with age her ropes and rails | I |
| Like a ghost through cere cloths gazing | D |
| Shone the white moon through her sails | I |
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| Not a movement stirred the stillness | J |
| Not a sound the silence broke | K |
| Save alone the livid water | H |
| Lapping round her sides of oak | K |
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| Then to her unseen commander | H |
| Spake I as to one I knew | L |
| Don Juan Ponc de L on | M |
| I have waited long for you | L |
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| Take me with you I implore you | L |
| Take me with you on your quest | N |
| For the Fount of Youth Eternal | E |
| For the Islands of the Blest | N |
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| Then above the bulwarks ancient | O |
| I beheld a head arise | P |
| And the moon with ghastly glimmer | H |
| Lit its sad and hollow eyes | P |
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| Grieved am I se or and sorry | B |
| Very courteously it said | Q |
| That I may not take you with me | B |
| But I only take the Dead | Q |
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| These alone may dare the voyage | R |
| These alone sail on the quest | N |
| For the Fount of Youth Eternal | E |
| For the Islands of the Blest | N |
Victor James Daley
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