The Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBD DEEED FGFFD BFFFD BHIIID GJKKD LMMD| But there was one land he dared not enter | A |
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| Beyond the blue the purple seas | B |
| Beyond the thin horizon's line | C |
| Beyond Antilla Hebrides | B |
| Jamaica Cuba Caribbees | B |
| There lies the land of Yucatan | D |
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| The land the land of Yucatan | D |
| The low coast breaking into foam | E |
| The dim hills where my thoughts shall roam | E |
| The forests of my boyhood's home | E |
| The splendid dream of Yucatan | D |
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| I met thee first long long ago | F |
| Turning a printed page and I | G |
| Stared at a world I did not know | F |
| And felt my blood like fire flow | F |
| At that strange name of Yucatan | D |
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| O those sweet far off Austral days | B |
| When life had a diviner glow | F |
| When hot Suns whipped my blood to know | F |
| Things all unseen then I could go | F |
| Into thy heart O Yucatan | D |
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| I have forgotten what I saw | B |
| I have forgotten what I knew | H |
| And many lands I've set sail for | I |
| To find that marvellous spell of yore | I |
| Never to set foot on thy shore | I |
| O haunting land of Yucatan | D |
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| But sailing I have passed thee by | G |
| And leaning on the white ship's rail | J |
| Watched thy dim hills till mystery | K |
| Wrapped thy far stillness close to me | K |
| And I have breathed ''tis Yucatan | D |
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| ''Tis Yucatan 'tis Yucatan ' | - |
| The ship is sailing far away | L |
| The coast recedes the dim hills fade | M |
| A bubble winding track we've made | M |
| And thou'rt a Dream O Yucatan | D |
W.j. Turner
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