Farewell To Florida Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFDGHI AJKLMNOPQRS ATUVWXYZA2B2C2 KD2CE2F2PG2H2H2NHI | 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 |
- | |
- | |
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 |
- | |
- | |
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 |
- | |
- | |
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
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Farewell To Florida poem by Wallace Stevens
Best Poems of Wallace Stevens