To Zoe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFE GHIH JKLAgainst the groaning mast I stand | A |
The Atlantic surges swell | B |
To bear me from my native land | A |
And Zoe's wild farewell | B |
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From billow upon billow hurl'd | C |
I can yet hear her say | D |
And is there nothing in the world | C |
Worth one short hour's delay ' | - |
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Alas my Zoe were it thus | E |
I should not sail alone | F |
Nor seas nor fates had parted us | E |
But are you all my own ' | - |
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Thus were it never would burst forth | G |
My sighs Heaven knows how true | H |
But though to me of little worth | I |
The world is much to you | H |
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Yes ' you shall say when once the dream | J |
So hard to break is o'er | K |
My love was very dear to him | L |
My fame and peace were more ' | - |
Walter Savage Landor
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