Ye Mariners Who Spread Your Sails. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD EEFF GGHH IJKK LLMM JKNN OOII D| Matel 'ts vous d ploirez les voiles | A |
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| XVI May | B |
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| Ye mariners ye mariners each sail to the breeze unfurled | C |
| In joy or sorrow still pursue your course around the world | C |
| And when the stars next sunset shine ye anxiously will gaze | D |
| Upon the shore a friend or foe as the windy quarter lays | D |
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| Ye envious souls with spiteful tooth the statue's base will bite | E |
| Ye birds will sing ye bending boughs with verdure glad the sight | E |
| The ivy root in the stone entwined will cause old gates to fall | F |
| The church bell sound to work or rest the villagers will call | F |
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| Ye glorious oaks will still increase in solitude profound | G |
| Where the far west in distance lies as evening veils around | G |
| Ye willows to the earth your arms in mournful trail will bend | H |
| And back again your mirror'd forms the water's surface send | H |
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| Ye nests will oscillate beneath the youthful progeny | I |
| Embraced in furrows of the earth the germing grain will lie | J |
| Ye lightning torches still your streams will cast into the air | K |
| Which like a troubled spirit's course float wildly here and there | K |
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| Ye thunder peals will God proclaim as doth the ocean wave | L |
| Ye violets will nourish still the flower that April gave | L |
| Upon your ambient tides will be man's sternest shadow cast | M |
| Your waters ever will roll on when man himself is past | M |
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| All things that are or being have or those that mutely lie | J |
| Have each its course to follow out or object to descry | K |
| Contributing its little share to that stupendous whole | N |
| Where with man's teeming race combined creation's wonders roll | N |
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| The poet too will contemplate th' Almighty Father's love | O |
| Who to our restless minds with light and darkness from above | O |
| Hath given the heavens that glorious urn of tranquil majesty | I |
| Whence in unceasing stores we draw calm and serenity | I |
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| Author of Critical Essays | D |
Victor-marie Hugo
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