Farewell To Florida Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFDGHI AJKLMNOPQRS ATUVWXYZA2B2C2 KD2CE2F2PG2H2H2NH| I | A |
| Go on high ship since now upon the shore | B |
| The snake has left its skin upon the floor | B |
| Key West sank downward under massive clouds | C |
| And silvers and greens spread over the sea The moon | D |
| Is at the mast head and the past is dead | E |
| Her mind will never speak to me again | F |
| I am free High above the mast the moon | D |
| Rides clear of her mind and the waves make a refrain | G |
| Of this that the snake has shed its skin upon | H |
| The floor Go on through the darkness The waves fly back | I |
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| II | A |
| Her mind had bound me round The palms were hot | J |
| As if I lived in ashen ground as if | K |
| The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound | L |
| From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South | M |
| Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea | N |
| Her home not mine in the ever freshened Keys | O |
| Her days her oceanic nights calling | P |
| For music for whisperings from the reefs | Q |
| How content I shall be in the North to which I sail | R |
| And to feel sure and to forget the bleaching sand | S |
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| III | A |
| I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools | T |
| Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness | U |
| Of waving weeds I hated the vivid blooms | V |
| Curled over the shadowless hut the rust and bones | W |
| The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand half sun | X |
| To stand here on the deck in the dark and say | Y |
| Farewell and to know that that land is forever gone | Z |
| And that she will not follow in any word | A2 |
| Or look nor ever again in thought except | B2 |
| That I loved her once Farewell Go on high ship | C2 |
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| IV | K |
| My North is leafless and lies in a wintry slime | D2 |
| Both of men and clouds a slime of men in crowds | C |
| The men are moving as the water moves | E2 |
| This darkened water cloven by sullen swells | F2 |
| Against your sides then shoving and slithering | P |
| The darkness shattered turbulent with foam | G2 |
| To be free again to return to the violent mind | H2 |
| That is their mind these men and that will bind | H2 |
| Me round carry me misty deck carry me | N |
| To the cold go on high ship go on plunge on | H |
Wallace Stevens
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