Alexander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLMN OPAP QOOO ORES| It was the Great Alexander | A |
| Capped with a golden helm | B |
| Sate in the ages in his floating ship | C |
| In a dead calm | D |
| - | |
| Voices of sea maids singing | E |
| Wandered across the deep | F |
| The sailors labouring on their oars | G |
| Rowed as in sleep | F |
| - | |
| All the high pomp of Asia | H |
| Charmed by that siren lay | I |
| Out of their weary and dreaming minds | J |
| Faded away | I |
| - | |
| Like a bold boy sate their Captain | K |
| His glamour withered and gone | L |
| In the souls of his brooding mariners | M |
| While the song pined on | N |
| - | |
| Time like a falling dew | O |
| Life like the scene of a dream | P |
| Laid between slumber and slumber | A |
| Only did seem | P |
| - | |
| O Alexander then | Q |
| In all us mortals too | O |
| Wax not so overbold | O |
| On the wave dark blue | O |
| - | |
| Come the calm starry night | O |
| Who then will hear | R |
| Aught save the singing | E |
| Of the sea maids clear | S |
Walter De La Mare
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