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