Poncé De Léon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHCH IJGJ GKLK KMDM NOGO APAP QMDMBy 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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